Account Brute Force

This hunting query searches for public IP addresses that failed to logon to a computer multiple times, using multiple accounts, and eventually succeeded.

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Detection requirements

Log source product: microsoftthreatprotection
Log source service: devicelogonevents

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Detection rules

Account Brute Force

Detection logic

Detection requirements

MITRE ATT&CK mappings

From the source

Licence

Authorship

Detection rules