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Identity & Cloud SecurityIntermediate LevelAudit Scope: SOC 2 CC6.1, ISO 27001 A.9, SEC Cyber Disclosure

Executive Account Takeover & Cloud IAM Privilege Escalation

Simulate a sophisticated social engineering and SIM-swap attack targeting the CFO's corporate email and AWS administrative accounts to exfiltrate financial and customer databases.

Inject 1 of 3Est: 45 Minutes

MFA Reset Granted Over Helpdesk Phone Bridge

Inject 1: Helpdesk MFA Bypass (T+00:00)🕒 01:15 PM Local Time

Incident Situation Report

An attacker calling from a spoofed number impersonates the Chief Financial Officer, claiming their phone was dropped in water while traveling. The Tier 1 helpdesk agent resets the CFO's MFA device without following out-of-band video verification protocols.

🎯 Key Technical & Policy Decision Points

Q1.What mandatory verification steps does our helpdesk enforce before resetting executive MFA tokens?
Q2.Can our identity provider detect impossible travel (e.g. login from Chicago 20 minutes after login from London)?
Q3.Who is alerted when an executive account undergoes an emergency credential reset?
1 of 3 Injects
Adversary Threat Intelligence
Threat Actor:Scattered Spider / Social Engineering Affiliate
Initial Access:Helpdesk Voice Social Engineering & SIM Swap
Primary Motivation:Financial Wire Fraud & Corporate Extortion

Compliance & Audit Scope

SOC 2 CC6.1ISO 27001 A.9SEC Cyber Disclosure
Recommended Defense Control

Okta

Enforce Okta FastPass phishing-resistant biometric MFA

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