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New User Added To GitHub Organization
A new user was added to a GitHub organization.
MITRE ATT&CK coverage
| Tactic | Techniques |
|---|---|
| Persistence | T1098.001 Account Manipulation: Additional Cloud Credentials, T1098.003 Account Manipulation: Additional Cloud Roles |
Event coverage
| Provider | Event |
|---|---|
| GitHub-org | org.add_member |
Rules detecting the same action
Other rules on this platform that filter on the same API call or operation.
- GitHub - User was added to the organization (Kusto)
- GitHub User Added or Removed from Org (Panther)
- New Github Organization Member Added (Sigma)
- New GitHub Owner Added (Elastic)
Rule body elastic
[metadata]
bypass_bbr_timing = true
creation_date = "2023/10/11"
integration = ["github"]
maturity = "production"
updated_date = "2026/03/24"
[rule]
author = ["Elastic"]
building_block_type = "default"
description = "A new user was added to a GitHub organization.\n"
from = "now-9m"
index = ["logs-github.audit-*"]
language = "eql"
license = "Elastic License v2"
name = "New User Added To GitHub Organization"
risk_score = 21
rule_id = "61336fe6-c043-4743-ab6e-41292f439603"
severity = "low"
tags = [
"Domain: Cloud",
"Use Case: Threat Detection",
"Use Case: UEBA",
"Tactic: Persistence",
"Rule Type: BBR",
"Data Source: Github",
]
timestamp_override = "event.ingested"
type = "eql"
query = '''
configuration where event.dataset == "github.audit" and event.action == "org.add_member"
'''
[[rule.threat]]
framework = "MITRE ATT&CK"
[[rule.threat.technique]]
id = "T1098"
name = "Account Manipulation"
reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1098/"
[[rule.threat.technique.subtechnique]]
id = "T1098.001"
name = "Additional Cloud Credentials"
reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1098/001/"
[[rule.threat.technique.subtechnique]]
id = "T1098.003"
name = "Additional Cloud Roles"
reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1098/003/"
[rule.threat.tactic]
id = "TA0003"
name = "Persistence"
reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/"
Stages and Predicates
Stage 1: configuration
configuration where event.dataset == "github.audit" and event.action == "org.add_member"
Indicators
Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.
| Field | Kind | Values |
|---|---|---|
event.action | eq |
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event.dataset | eq |
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