Has deployed different types of containers into victim environments to facilitate execution.12 TeamTNT has also transferred cryptocurrency mining software to Kubernetes clusters discovered within local IP address ranges.3
Deploy Container T1610
- Tactic
- Execution
- Platform
- Containers
- Version
- 2.0
- Created
- 29 March 2021
- Last modified
- 12 May 2026
- Contributors
- Alfredo Oliveira, Trend Micro; Ariel Shuper, Cisco; Center for Threat-Informed Defense (CTID); Idan Frimark, Cisco; Joas Antonio dos Santos, @C0d3Cr4zy; Magno Logan, @magnologan, Trend Micro; Pawan Kinger, @kingerpawan, Trend Micro; Vishwas Manral, McAfee; Yossi Weizman, Azure Defender Research Team
Adversaries may deploy a container into an environment to facilitate execution or evade defenses. In some cases, adversaries may deploy a new container to execute processes associated with a particular image or deployment, such as processes that execute or download malware. In others, an adversary may deploy a new container configured without network rules, user limitations, etc. to bypass existing defenses within the environment. In Kubernetes environments, an adversary may attempt to deploy a privileged or vulnerable container into a specific node in order to Escape to Host and access other containers running on the node. [1]