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Unusual Login Activity

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Unusual Login Activity

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Identifies an unusually high number of authentication attempts.

Rule type: machine_learning

Machine learning job: suspicious_login_activity_ecs

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

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Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Linux
  • ML

Version: 2 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.7.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.9.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License

Potential false positives

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

Rule version history

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Version 2 (7.9.0 release)
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