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New Country

Detects sign-ins from new countries. The detection considers past activity locations to determine new and infrequent locations.

MITRE ATT&CK

T1078

persistencedefense-evasionprivilege-escalationinitial-access

Detection Query

selection:
  riskEventType: newCountry
condition: selection

Author

Mark Morowczynski '@markmorow', Gloria Lee, '@gleeiamglo'

Created

2023-09-03

Data Sources

azureriskdetection

Platforms

azure

References

Tags

attack.t1078attack.persistenceattack.defense-evasionattack.privilege-escalationattack.initial-access

Raw Content

title: New Country
id: adf9f4d2-559e-4f5c-95be-c28dff0b1476
status: test
description: Detects sign-ins from new countries. The detection considers past activity locations to determine new and infrequent locations.
references:
    - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/id-protection/concept-identity-protection-risks#new-country
    - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/architecture/security-operations-user-accounts#unusual-sign-ins
author: Mark Morowczynski '@markmorow', Gloria Lee, '@gleeiamglo'
date: 2023-09-03
tags:
    - attack.t1078
    - attack.persistence
    - attack.defense-evasion
    - attack.privilege-escalation
    - attack.initial-access
logsource:
    product: azure
    service: riskdetection
detection:
    selection:
        riskEventType: 'newCountry'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - We recommend investigating the sessions flagged by this detection in the context of other sign-ins from the user.
level: high