LoFP LoFP / business workflows that occur very occasionally, and involve an unusual surge in network traffic, can trigger this alert. a new business workflow or a surge in business activity may trigger this alert. a misconfigured network application or firewall may trigger this alert.

Sample rules

Spike in Network Traffic

Description

A machine learning job detected an unusually large spike in network traffic. Such a burst of traffic, if not caused by a surge in business activity, can be due to suspicious or malicious activity. Large-scale data exfiltration may produce a burst of network traffic; this could also be due to unusually large amounts of reconnaissance or enumeration traffic. Denial-of-service attacks or traffic floods may also produce such a surge in traffic.

Detection logic

Spike in Network Traffic To a Country

Description

A machine learning job detected an unusually large spike in network activity to one destination country in the network logs. This could be due to unusually large amounts of reconnaissance or enumeration traffic. Data exfiltration activity may also produce such a surge in traffic to a destination country that does not normally appear in network traffic or business workflows. Malware instances and persistence mechanisms may communicate with command-and-control (C2) infrastructure in their country of origin, which may be an unusual destination country for the source network.

Detection logic