Attempted Bypass of Okta MFA

Detects attempts to bypass Okta multi-factor authentication (MFA). An adversary may attempt to bypass the Okta MFA policies configured for an organization in order to obtain unauthorized access to an application.

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: 6 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.9.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.13.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guide

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## Config

The Okta Fleet integration, Filebeat module, or similarly structured data is required to be compatible with 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 6 (7.13.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 5 (7.12.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 4 (7.11.2 release)

Formatting only

Version 3 (7.11.0 release)

Formatting only

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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