Common Information
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| Value |
Multi-Factor Authentication - T1556.006 |
| Category | Attack-Pattern |
| Type | Mitre-Attack-Pattern |
| Misp Type | Cluster |
| Description | Adversaries may disable or modify multi-factor authentication (MFA) mechanisms to enable persistent access to compromised accounts. Once adversaries have gained access to a network by either compromising an account lacking MFA or by employing an MFA bypass method such as [Multi-Factor Authentication Request Generation](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1621), adversaries may leverage their access to modify or completely disable MFA defenses. This can be accomplished by abusing legitimate features, such as excluding users from Azure AD Conditional Access Policies, registering a new yet vulnerable/adversary-controlled MFA method, or by manually patching MFA programs and configuration files to bypass expected functionality.(Citation: Mandiant APT42)(Citation: Azure AD Conditional Access Exclusions) For example, modifying the Windows hosts file (`C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts`) to redirect MFA calls to localhost instead of an MFA server may cause the MFA process to fail. If a "fail open" policy is in place, any otherwise successful authentication attempt may be granted access without enforcing MFA. (Citation: Russians Exploit Default MFA Protocol - CISA March 2022) Depending on the scope, goals, and privileges of the adversary, MFA defenses may be disabled for individual accounts or for all accounts tied to a larger group, such as all domain accounts in a victim's network environment.(Citation: Russians Exploit Default MFA Protocol - CISA March 2022) |
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| Details | Website | 2018-08-20 | 307 | Vulnerability Summary for the Week of August 13, 2018 | CISA | ||
| Details | Website | 2018-08-15 | 2 | A Look at Auth0 Cloud Architecture: 5 Years In | ||
| Details | Website | 2018-08-14 | 4 | Multi-Factor Mixup: Who Were You Again? | ||
| Details | Website | 2018-08-12 | 0 | Black Hat & DEF CON Presentation Slides Posted | ||
| Details | Website | 2018-08-02 | 0 | InfoSec’s fantastic fear of everything — why the Reddit incident shouldn’t cause InfoSec to throw… | ||
| Details | Website | 2018-07-31 | 0 | SamSam: The (almost) $6 million ransomware | ||
| Details | Website | 2018-07-26 | 14 | Attack inception: Compromised supply chain within a supply chain poses new risks - Microsoft Security Blog | ||
| Details | Website | 2018-07-25 | 0 | Authentication As a Service: Architecture, Technologies, and Solutions | Apriorit | ||
| Details | Website | 2018-07-25 | 0 | What Harry Potter Teaches Us about Constant Vigilance and Insider Threats | ||
| Details | Website | 2018-07-17 | 0 | Six Things your Enterprise Needs to Learn from the DNC Hacking Indictment | ||
| Details | Website | 2018-07-15 | 1 | Forensic Cyberpsychology: Profiling the Next-Generation Cybercriminal | ||
| Details | Website | 2018-07-12 | 0 | Data Breaches in Retail over the Last Two Years | ||
| Details | Website | 2018-07-11 | 32 | Passing-the-Hash to NTLM Authenticated Web Applications | ||
| Details | Website | 2018-06-23 | 0 | Password Security | ||
| Details | Website | 2018-06-14 | 0 | Building Zero Trust networks with Microsoft 365 - Microsoft Security Blog | ||
| Details | Website | 2018-05-29 | 5 | Remote Authentication GeoFeasibility Tool - GeoLogonalyzer | Mandiant | ||
| Details | Website | 2018-05-26 | 2 | T-Mobile Employee Made Unauthorized ‘SIM Swap’ to Steal Instagram Account – Krebs on Security | ||
| Details | Website | 2018-05-22 | 0 | YubiKey comes to iPhone with Mobile SDK for iOS and LastPass support | ||
| Details | Website | 2018-05-17 | 0 | Get Your Online Privacy Under Control | McAfee Blog | ||
| Details | Website | 2018-05-16 | 0 | CISSP Practice Exam: Free Online Sample Questions | ||
| Details | Website | 2018-05-14 | 0 | Building Cybersecurity from the Ground Up — Part 2: The Technology Basics | ||
| Details | Website | 2018-05-13 | 0 | Has Your Email Been Hacked? | ||
| Details | Website | 2018-05-04 | 0 | Russia Attacks Global Network Infrastructure Through Vulnerabilities That Extend Far Beyond Their Targets | ||
| Details | Website | 2018-05-03 | 9 | Adding Salt to Hashing: A Better Way to Store Passwords | ||
| Details | Website | 2018-05-03 | 14 | Microsoft Identity Bounty | MSRC |