Brute force attack against Azure Portal
Detects Azure Portal brute force attacks by monitoring for multiple authentication failures and a successful login within a 20-minute window. Default settings: 10 failures, 25 deviations. Ref:…
Description
Detects Azure Portal brute force attacks by monitoring for multiple authentication failures and a successful login within a 20-minute window. Default settings: 10 failures, 25 deviations. Ref: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/reports-monitoring/reference-sign-ins-error-codes.
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- ContainersESXiIaaSIdentity ProviderLinuxmacOSNetwork DevicesOffice SuiteSaaSWindows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.
- Log source product
- azureactivedirectory
- Log source service
- aadnoninteractiveusersigninlogssigninlogs
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
0 exclusive techniques.This is coverage no other published rule has; it is not this rule's total technique count.
No references are available for this detection.
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- 28b42356-45af-40a6-a0b4-a554cdfd5d8a
- Tagged by the source as
- CredentialAccess
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Sep 1, 2026
- Version
- 1