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Re: Spike in O365 risky "unfamiliar" sign-ins?


From: "Turnbull, Colin" <cturnbull () EWU EDU>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 18:05:21 +0000

Possibly unrelated but if you subscribe to the haveibeenpwned domain 
search, you may want to compare the accounts with those listed in the 
Chegg data breach. We're seeing a run on those accounts being tested. 
This includes the use of the MS address space with a South Korea 
geolocation.

Colin Turnbull
Sr Manager InfoSec Services & CISO
Information Technology
cturnbull () ewu edu | 509.359.4985

On 9/13/19 8:28 AM, Jim A. Bole wrote:
Many thanks for the quick confirmation.

We had a scary start to this Friday the 13^th .

Jim

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*Subject:* Re: Spike in O365 risky "unfamiliar" sign-ins?

Yep.  Same here.  I’m going to be working with my team to create a good 
run book for these events.  A fair percentage need to be filtered out, 
and we need to find a good way of determining the validity of an alert.  
As an example, I have a faculty member who showed an alert for logging 
in from South Korea this morning.  I don’t know off-hand if she’s 
travelling and this is legit, or if her account is compromised.  We’ll 
need to figure out how to do a reasonably fast investigation for these 
events.  I obviously can’t just email the individuals, as someone could 
be intercepting the emails.

If anyone has good O365 runbooks, I would appreciate a discussion.

*Mike Hart  | CISO, Director of ITS Security, Infrastructure, and 
Networking*
*Metropolitan State University of Denver
Information Technology Services*
Campus Box 96, P.O. Box 173362, Denver, CO 80217-3362
Admin Building - 1201 5^th  Street 480E  Denver, CO 80204
303-615-0541 (Office)
303-352-7548 (Help Desk)
mhart20 () msudenver edu <mailto:mhart20 () msudenver edu> | 
www.msudenver.edu/technology 
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*On Behalf Of *Jim A. Bole
*Sent:* Friday, September 13, 2019 8:25 AM
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*Subject:* [SECURITY] Spike in O365 risky "unfamiliar" sign-ins?

In the past 24 hours we saw a spike in “unfamiliar” sign-in alerts on 
our O365 tenant.

We are still investigating, but we have some indications in might be due 
to Microsoft’s recent change in their algorithm:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Azure-Active-Directory-Identity/Presenting-the-new-Unfamiliar-Sign-in-Properties/ba-p/779978
 
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Is anyone else seeing this?

Jim Bole

Director of Information Security

*Stevenson University*

1525 Greenspring Valley Road

Stevenson, MD, 21153-0641

jbole () stevenson edu <mailto:jbole () stevenson edu> | O: 443-334-2696

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