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Attempt to Deactivate MFA for Okta User Account

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Attempt to Deactivate MFA for Okta User Account

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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-*
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

References:

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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If the behavior of deactivating MFA for Okta user accounts is expected, consider adding exceptions to this rule to filter false positives.

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.deactivate

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Persistence
- ID: TA0003
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/
Technique:
- Name: Account Manipulation
- ID: T1098
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1098/

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.deactivate

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