Cisco BGP Authentication Failures
Detects BGP failures which may be indicative of brute force attacks to manipulate routing
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1title: Cisco BGP Authentication Failures
2id: 56fa3cd6-f8d6-4520-a8c7-607292971886
3status: test
4description: Detects BGP failures which may be indicative of brute force attacks to manipulate routing
5references:
6 - https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-03/bh-us-03-convery-franz-v3.pdf
7author: Tim Brown
8date: 2023-01-09
9modified: 2023-01-23
10tags:
11 - attack.initial-access
12 - attack.persistence
13 - attack.privilege-escalation
14 - attack.defense-evasion
15 - attack.credential-access
16 - attack.collection
17 - attack.t1078
18 - attack.t1110
19 - attack.t1557
20logsource:
21 product: cisco
22 service: bgp
23 definition: 'Requirements: cisco bgp logs need to be enabled and ingested'
24detection:
25 keywords_bgp_cisco:
26 '|all':
27 - ':179' # Protocol
28 - 'IP-TCP-3-BADAUTH'
29 condition: keywords_bgp_cisco
30fields:
31 - tcpConnLocalAddress
32 - tcpConnRemAddress
33falsepositives:
34 - Unlikely. Except due to misconfigurations
35level: low
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