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Attempt to Reset MFA Factors for Okta User Account

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Attempt to Reset MFA Factors for Okta User Account

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An adversary may attempt to remove the multi-factor authentication (MFA) factors registered on an Okta user’s account in order to register new MFA factors and abuse the account to blend in with normal activity in the victim’s environment.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • filebeat-*
  • logs-okta*

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

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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

Potential false positives

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Consider adding exceptions to this rule to filter false positives if the MFA factors for Okta user accounts are regularly reset in your organization.

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.factor.reset_all

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

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.factor.reset_all
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