EP-T-04Level 1 · Signal
Credential-theft, lateral-movement or privilege-escalation alert on their device
- Threat
- Neutral
- Level 1 · Signal
A Threat signal from endpoint protection (EDR, alert.credential.theft): the agent saw an attacker technique on this person's device, such as password scraping, a hop to another machine or a privilege jump.
Classification
- Risk domain One of 9 areas of human risk, from social engineering to readiness and response. Every signal belongs to one.
- Evidence level
- Maturity practices One capability a program performs, scored on its own: See, Understand, Act, Prove, Govern and Culture.
- Leads to The kind of breach the evidence beneath it points toward, each anchored to a Verizon DBIR or VERIS pattern or an FBI IC3 category.
- NIST CSF 2.0
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- DE.CM-09
- MITRE ATT&CK
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- T1003
- T1021
- T1068
The definition, in detail
Definition
An intrusion is under way.
Example
An IT administrator's workstation raises an alert for a credential-dumping tool at 2 a.m.; the SOC isolates the machine and resets every account that signed in from it.
How it is measured
- Source
- Endpoint protection
- Subject
- Person
- Event
- alert.credential.theft
- Risk domain
- Endpoint and device
- Provenance
- Verizon DBIR
How it is used
Programs count "Credential-theft, lateral-movement or privilege-escalation alert on their device" per person from Endpoint protection and read it beside the other Endpoint and device signals; it feeds 0 cohorts, 1 sequence and 2 breach scenarios.
A "credential-theft, lateral-movement or privilege-escalation alert on their device" record is evidence of what reaches the person (the threat side of the model). It says nothing on its own about what the person did.
Continue exploring
"Credential-theft, lateral-movement or privilege-escalation alert on their device" (EP-T-04), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/signals/ep-t-04-credential-theft-lateral-movement-or-privilege-escalation-alert-on-their-device
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The initial assessment
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