New GitHub Owner Added

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Detects when a new member is added to a GitHub organization as an owner. This role provides admin level privileges. Any new owner roles should be investigated to determine it’s validity. Unauthorized owner roles could indicate compromise within your organization and provide unlimited access to data and settings.

Rule type: eql

Rule indices:

  • logs-github.audit-*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5m

Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References: None

Tags:

  • Domain: Cloud
  • Use Case: Threat Detection
  • Use Case: UEBA
  • Tactic: Persistence
  • Data Source: Github

Version: 3

Rule authors:

  • Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

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iam where event.dataset == "github.audit" and event.action == "org.add_member" and github.permission == "admin"

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM