Unusual Login Activityedit

Identifies an unusually high number of authentication attempts.

Rule type: machine_learning

Machine learning job: suspicious_login_activity

Machine learning anomaly threshold: 50

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 15 minutes

Searches indices from: now-45m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Authentication
  • Threat Detection
  • ML
  • Credential Access

Version: 100 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.7.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.5.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Potential false positivesedit

Security audits may trigger this alert. Conditions that generate bursts of failed logins, such as misconfigured applications or account lockouts could trigger this alert. ==== Threat mapping

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

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