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Attempted Bypass of Okta MFA

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Attempted Bypass of Okta MFA

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An adversary may attempt to bypass the Okta multi-factor authentication (MFA) policies configured for an organization in order to obtain unauthorized access to an application. This rule detects when an Okta MFA bypass attempt occurs.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

filebeat-*
logs-okta*

Severity: high

Risk score: 73

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-6m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

Elastic
Identity
Okta
Continuous Monitoring
SecOps
Identity and Access

Version: 2 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.9.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License

Investigation guide

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The Okta Filebeat module must be enabled to use this rule.

Rule query

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event.dataset:okta.system and event.action:user.mfa.attempt_bypass

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Credential Access
- ID: TA0006
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0006/
Technique:
- Name: Two-Factor Authentication Interception
- ID: T1111
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1111/

Rule version history

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Version 2 (7.10.0 release)

Updated query, changed from:

event.module:okta and event.dataset:okta.system and
event.action:user.mfa.attempt_bypass

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