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Attempt to Deactivate MFA for Okta User Accountedit
An adversary may deactivate multi-factor authentication (MFA) for an Okta user account in order to weaken the authentication requirements for the account.
Rule type: query
Rule indices:
- filebeat-*
Severity: low
Risk score: 21
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
- Okta
- SecOps
- Identity and Access
- Continuous Monitoring
Version: 1
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.9.0
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License
Potential false positivesedit
If the behavior of deactivating MFA for Okta user accounts is expected, consider adding exceptions to this rule to filter false positives.
Investigation guideedit
The Okta Filebeat module must be enabled to use this rule.
Rule queryedit
event.module:okta and event.dataset:okta.system and event.action:user.mfa.factor.deactivate
Threat mappingedit
Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Persistence
- ID: TA0003
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/
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Technique:
- Name: Account Manipulation
- ID: T1098
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1098/