Analytics Alerts

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Severity
Detection module
Data source
  • Failed Login For a Long Username With Special Characters Informational

    A long username containing special characters failed to log in to the domain.

    Activation:
    14 Days
    Training:
    30 Days
    Test:
    N/A (single event)
    Deduplication:
    1 Day
    ATT&CK tactics: Initial Access (TA0001)
    ATT&CK techniques: Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190)
    Required data: Palo Alto Networks Firewall EAL Logs XDR Agent
    Attacker's goals: An attacker is trying to get code execution on internet-facing assets through command injection.
    Investigative actions: Check the host and/or user triggering these failed attempts: Is the host running internet-facing services? Are we looking at sanction vulnerability scanning?