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Anthropic SSO Login Failed

Severity
medium
Group by
actor.email_address
Log types
Anthropic.Activity
Tags
Anthropic, Authentication
Source
github.com/panther-labs/panther-analysis

Detects failed SSO login attempts to the Anthropic organization. The actor is unauthenticated so no email is available — only the source IP. Every failure is alerted on as SSO failures should be rare in normal operation.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Credential AccessT1110 Brute Force

Rule body yaml

AnalysisType: rule
RuleID: Anthropic.Activity.SSO.Login.Failed
DisplayName: "Anthropic SSO Login Failed"
Enabled: true
Filename: anthropic_sso_login_failed.py
LogTypes:
  - Anthropic.Activity
Severity: Medium
Description: >
  Detects failed SSO login attempts to the Anthropic organization. The actor
  is unauthenticated so no email is available — only the source IP. Every
  failure is alerted on as SSO failures should be rare in normal operation.
Runbook: |
  1. Find all Anthropic.Activity SSO events (sso_login_initiated, sso_login_succeeded, sso_login_failed) from actor:ip_address in the 1 hour before and after the alert to determine if this was a one-off or part of a burst
  2. Check if actor:ip_address appears in threat intelligence feeds or is associated with known VPN/proxy services
  3. Check if actor:ip_address has been seen in successful sso_login_succeeded events in the past 30 days to determine if this is a known user IP
Tags:
  - Anthropic
  - Authentication
Reports:
  MITRE ATT&CK:
    - TA0006:T1110  # Brute Force
Tests:
  - Name: SSO login failed
    ExpectedResult: true
    Log:
      {
        "id": "activity_01ABC123",
        "created_at": "2026-05-05T21:33:29Z",
        "organization_id": "org_01XYZ",
        "type": "sso_login_failed",
        "actor": {
          "type": "unauthenticated_user_actor",
          "ip_address": "192.168.1.1",
          "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0"
        }
      }
  - Name: SSO login succeeded - not a match
    ExpectedResult: false
    Log:
      {
        "id": "activity_01DEF456",
        "created_at": "2026-05-05T21:33:29Z",
        "organization_id": "org_01XYZ",
        "type": "sso_login_succeeded",
        "actor": {
          "type": "user_actor",
          "email_address": "user@example.com",
          "user_id": "user_01ABC",
          "ip_address": "192.168.1.1"
        }
      }

Detection logic

Condition

type eq "sso_login_failed"

Indicators

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FieldKindValues
typeeq
  • sso_login_failed

Output fields

Fields the rule emits when it matches. Chronicle authors list these in the outcome block; they appear on the detection and $risk_score drives alerting. Sentinel / Defender XDR rules build them up through project / summarize / extend stages. Sentinel maps these into alert fields via entityMappings and customDetails; Defender XDR custom detections surface them as alert fields directly.

FieldSource
event_typetype
actor_typeactor.type
actor_emailactor.email_address
actor_user_idactor.user_id
ip_addressactor.ip_address
user_agentactor.user_agent
api_key_idactor.api_key_id
organization_id
ipsp_any_ip_addresses