External Entities interconnected to main mission
Parent: T2039
Description
An attacker can compromise the system of a contractor company, to steal, modify or damage resources. A scientific or another connected company/research institution can be compromised for the same objective. Connected networks or data exchanges can be leveraged to propagate the attack.
Mapped SPARTA techniques
5 techniques
T2039.001 'External Entities interconnected to main mission' covers compromising contractor companies — addresses EXF-0008's developer-site compromise at contractor or partner organizations.
T2039.001 'External Entities interconnected to main mission' covers compromise of contractor and connected research-institution systems — direct fit to EXF-0009's compromise of third-party infrastructure (commercial ground stations, relay networks, operations service providers, data processing partners).
T2039.001 'External Entities interconnected to main mission' explicitly covers compromise of scientific/research institutions and contractor companies — direct match to IA-0009.01's academic/instrument-builder collaborator scope.
T2039.001 'External Entities interconnected to main mission' explicitly names contractor companies, directly aligned with IA-0009.02's vendor scope (vendors holding elevated routes for remote admin, license servers, cloud services, firmware delivery).
T2039.001 'External Entities interconnected to main mission' covers the user-segment scope IA-0009.03 describes (customer ground gateways, tasking portals, end-user terminals) under the broader external-entities-interconnected umbrella; SPACE-SHIELD has no user-segment-specific technique.
Cite as SafeMode Space, space-shield T2039.001.