Rule library
// Detection

Privileged account created

A new account added directly to an administrative group. Legitimate provisioning goes through change control, so this warrants immediate confirmation.

CriticalInvestigating0alerts raisedSignature
Armed

What this rule does

Rendered from the stored logic, so it cannot drift from what executes.

Any event where eventType is USER_CREATED

{
  "kind": "match",
  "where": [
    {
      "op": "eq",
      "field": "eventType",
      "value": "USER_CREATED"
    }
  ]
}

Revise

Backtest before saving. Alerts already raised keep their original descriptions: they record what the rule found at the time.

Fields: eventType, username, sourceIp, destinationIp, hostname, processName, commandLine, parentProcess, action, status, country, city

Alerts raised (0)

What this rule has actually caught.

Never fired

Armed, but nothing in the retained window has matched it.

Rule

Category
Privilege Escalation
ATT&CK tactic
Privilege Escalation
Technique
T1098
Kind
Signature
State
Armed
Created
7d ago
Last changed
7d ago

Firing history

Total alerts
0
First fired
Never
Last fired
Never
Escalated to cases
0
Dismissed benign
0

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