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An attacker managed to gain access to Jenkins in accounting’s email and intercepted email from legitimate creditors, replacing their banking details with the attacker's own, and even forging invoices from non-existent suppliers. Forged emails are then sent from the CEO or CFO to approve the payments.",{"data":1027,"content":1028,"nodeType":243},{},[1029],{"data":1030,"marks":1031,"value":1033,"nodeType":247},{},[1032],{"type":675},"But how did they manage to gain access to the account? Our security team enforced multi-factor authentication (MFA) a few weeks ago. 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By this point your cloud provider’s logs are likely to have rolled over and you’re unlikely to find much useful information to populate your incident timeline.",{"data":1092,"content":1093,"nodeType":243},{},[1094],{"data":1095,"marks":1096,"value":1097,"nodeType":247},{},[],"Shameless plug alert: Push’s ChatOps functionality can greatly assist here as it detects such malicious rules when created, and sends a message to the owner of the account (Jenkins) asking if they created the rule. Sometimes a user will have a legitimate use for creating mail rules to forward messages to another account, and this allows them to acknowledge the rule and mark it as safe. In case they didn’t create it, they can flag it as such and this will cause an alert to be sent to their security team. This is practically instant detection and invaluable when preventing fraudulent payments. 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It came down to social engineering: instructing an employee to click a link by an account masquerading as their CFO.",{"data":1234,"content":1235,"nodeType":243},{},[1236],{"data":1237,"marks":1238,"value":1239,"nodeType":247},{},[],"For the purposes of this hypothetical incident, we’ll establish that the following occurred:",{"data":1241,"content":1242,"nodeType":689},{},[1243,1253,1263,1273],{"data":1244,"content":1245,"nodeType":693},{},[1246],{"data":1247,"content":1248,"nodeType":243},{},[1249],{"data":1250,"marks":1251,"value":1252,"nodeType":247},{},[],"Andrew Jenkins was targeted in a phishing attack",{"data":1254,"content":1255,"nodeType":693},{},[1256],{"data":1257,"content":1258,"nodeType":243},{},[1259],{"data":1260,"marks":1261,"value":1262,"nodeType":247},{},[],"Andrew authenticated via Microsoft 365, which is a legitimate and expected authentication mechanism and occurs almost daily",{"data":1264,"content":1265,"nodeType":693},{},[1266],{"data":1267,"content":1268,"nodeType":243},{},[1269],{"data":1270,"marks":1271,"value":1272,"nodeType":247},{},[],"No attachments were downloaded, thus in this isolated incident there was no code execution on Andrew’s host, meaning that Anti-Virus or Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) would not have prevented it",{"data":1274,"content":1275,"nodeType":693},{},[1276],{"data":1277,"content":1278,"nodeType":243},{},[1279],{"data":1280,"marks":1281,"value":1282,"nodeType":247},{},[],"The attacker gained full access to Andrew’s mailbox",{"data":1284,"content":1285,"nodeType":243},{},[1286],{"data":1287,"marks":1288,"value":1289,"nodeType":247},{},[],"The malicious app was disabled by Microsoft after some time, so a full investigation into its capabilities was not possible. We don’t know whether another phishing page was presented after the integration took place, thus to be on the safe side we need to assume this happened and led to credential compromise.",{"data":1291,"content":1292,"nodeType":243},{},[1293,1297,1306],{"data":1294,"marks":1295,"value":1296,"nodeType":247},{},[],"The app was unverified, which has historically been true in most of these scenarios. Publishers need to associate a Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) ID with the app, which follows a ",{"data":1298,"content":1300,"nodeType":312},{"uri":1299},"https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/verification-responses",[1301],{"data":1302,"marks":1303,"value":1305,"nodeType":247},{},[1304],{"type":665},"verification process",{"data":1307,"marks":1308,"value":1309,"nodeType":247},{},[],", in order to have it appear as a verified app. This Microsoft 365 tenant was configured to allow unverified integrations due to an oversight following an app migration project.",{"data":1311,"content":1312,"nodeType":243},{},[1313],{"data":1314,"marks":1315,"value":1316,"nodeType":247},{},[],"This leads us to the following to help prevent similar attacks from occurring in future, and to make sure there is no opportunity for the attacker to leverage any existing foothold:",{"data":1318,"content":1319,"nodeType":689},{},[1320,1330,1340,1350,1371,1387,1397],{"data":1321,"content":1322,"nodeType":693},{},[1323],{"data":1324,"content":1325,"nodeType":243},{},[1326],{"data":1327,"marks":1328,"value":1329,"nodeType":247},{},[],"Disable the integration and remove the malicious app’s permissions",{"data":1331,"content":1332,"nodeType":693},{},[1333],{"data":1334,"content":1335,"nodeType":243},{},[1336],{"data":1337,"marks":1338,"value":1339,"nodeType":247},{},[],"Reset Andrew Jenkins’ credentials",{"data":1341,"content":1342,"nodeType":693},{},[1343],{"data":1344,"content":1345,"nodeType":243},{},[1346],{"data":1347,"marks":1348,"value":1349,"nodeType":247},{},[],"Be aware of and review newly created mail rules",{"data":1351,"content":1352,"nodeType":693},{},[1353],{"data":1354,"content":1355,"nodeType":243},{},[1356,1359,1368],{"data":1357,"marks":1358,"value":29,"nodeType":247},{},[],{"data":1360,"content":1362,"nodeType":312},{"uri":1361},"https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/manage-apps/configure-user-consent?tabs=azure-portal",[1363],{"data":1364,"marks":1365,"value":1367,"nodeType":247},{},[1366],{"type":665},"Confirm that the Microsoft 365 tenant is set to disallow integrations from unverified apps",{"data":1369,"marks":1370,"value":29,"nodeType":247},{},[],{"data":1372,"content":1373,"nodeType":693},{},[1374],{"data":1375,"content":1376,"nodeType":689},{},[1377],{"data":1378,"content":1379,"nodeType":693},{},[1380],{"data":1381,"content":1382,"nodeType":243},{},[1383],{"data":1384,"marks":1385,"value":1386,"nodeType":247},{},[],"Note: as of November 9th, 2020, integrations with unverified apps are disabled by default.",{"data":1388,"content":1389,"nodeType":693},{},[1390],{"data":1391,"content":1392,"nodeType":243},{},[1393],{"data":1394,"marks":1395,"value":1396,"nodeType":247},{},[],"Communicate with employees and other affected parties to be weary of these types of attacks",{"data":1398,"content":1399,"nodeType":693},{},[1400],{"data":1401,"content":1402,"nodeType":243},{},[1403],{"data":1404,"marks":1405,"value":1406,"nodeType":247},{},[],"Perform regular audits against your Microsoft 365 tenants to highlight any discrepancies and integrations with unusual or unnecessary permissions.",{"data":1408,"content":1409,"nodeType":243},{},[1410,1414,1423],{"data":1411,"marks":1412,"value":1413,"nodeType":247},{},[],"Microsoft implementing safe defaults towards limiting integrations from unverified publishers was a step in the right direction. However, there have been ",{"data":1415,"content":1417,"nodeType":312},{"uri":1416},"https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/cloud-security/oivavoii-active-malicious-hybrid-cloud-threats-campaign",[1418],{"data":1419,"marks":1420,"value":1422,"nodeType":247},{},[1421],{"type":665},"cases",{"data":1424,"marks":1425,"value":1426,"nodeType":247},{},[]," where attackers utilized compromised publishers to perform similar attacks. ",{"data":1428,"content":1429,"nodeType":1083},{},[1430],{"data":1431,"marks":1432,"value":1433,"nodeType":247},{},[],"Conclusion",{"data":1435,"content":1436,"nodeType":243},{},[1437],{"data":1438,"marks":1439,"value":1440,"nodeType":247},{},[],"While the process isn’t exactly straightforward, catching early indicators like malicious mail rules helps you prevent an attacker from launching additional attacks like phishing campaigns as they try to gain access to sensitive business data. Removing the mail rule is just the start of the process, you really need to revoke permissions and take the other steps we covered in this post to stop an attack from going any further. We’ll publish some more content on SaaS incident response on our blog, so subscribe to get our guidance straight into your inbox.",{"data":1442,"content":1446,"nodeType":259},{"target":1443},{"sys":1444},{"id":1445,"type":264,"linkType":265},"6oHRbGLus4bstsAc7E0zBD",[],{"data":1448,"content":1449,"nodeType":243},{},[1450],{"data":1451,"marks":1452,"value":29,"nodeType":247},{},[],"How to kick off an incident response investigation for a compromised SaaS account","We'll walk through how to quickly detect and mitigate business email compromise (BEC) and then prevent future attacks.","2022-09-20T00:00:00.000Z","how-to-kick-off-an-incident-response-investigation-for-a-compromised-saas",{"items":1458},[1459,1461],{"sys":1460,"name":973},{"id":972},{"sys":1462,"name":1464},{"id":1463},"3pjES4THCIfSAwhGdNwBcy","Browser security",{"items":1466},[1467],{"fullName":1468,"firstName":1469,"jobTitle":1470,"profilePicture":1471},"Johann Scheepers","Johann","Senior Security Engineer",{"url":1472},"https://images.ctfassets.net/y1cdw1ablpvd/75IEOH93vR0hbvxuqTu1m3/f6222745ee6892ea07bc18727a5a5ae7/T016S22KZ96-U02LU3SKC2D-e1e755770536-512.png","consent-phishing-the-emerging-phishing-technique-that-can-bypass-2fa","blog/consent-phishing-the-emerging-phishing-technique-that-can-bypass-2fa",{"json":1476},{"data":1477,"content":1478,"nodeType":239},{},[1479],{"data":1480,"content":1481,"nodeType":243},{},[1482],{"data":1483,"marks":1484,"value":1485,"nodeType":247},{},[],"Consent phishing is an emerging technique attackers are using to compromise user accounts, even if they have Multi-factor Authentication (MFA or 2FA) enabled. 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