Metropolitan Police Breach Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (MET1774599822)

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the Metropolitan Police breach identified under incident ID MET1774599822.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Metropolitan Police's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/metpoliceuk, the number of followers: 175509, the industry type: Law Enforcement and the number of employees: 19573 employees

After the initial compromise, the video explains how Rankiteo's incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score. The incident score before the incident was 675 and after the incident was 614 with a difference of -61 which is could be a good indicator of the severity and impact of the incident.

In the next step of the video, we will analyze in more details the incident and the impact it had on Metropolitan Police and their customers.

Dutch National Police (Politie) recently reported "Dutch Police Phishing Attack with Limited Impact", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.

The Dutch National Police (Politie) disclosed a security breach stemming from a successful phishing attack, confirming that the incident had a limited impact and did not compromise citizens' data or investigative information.

The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing No sensitive citizen or operational data was exposed.

In response, teams activated the incident response plan, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Attackers' access to compromised systems was blocked.

The case underscores how Ongoing.

Finally, we try to match the incident with the MITRE ATT&CK framework to see if there is any correlation between the incident and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

The MITRE ATT&CK framework is a knowledge base of techniques and sub-techniques that are used to describe the tactics and procedures of cyber adversaries. It is a powerful tool for understanding the threat landscape and for developing effective defense strategies.

Rankiteo's analysis has identified several MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques associated with this incident, each with varying levels of confidence based on available evidence. Under the Initial Access tactic, the analysis identified Phishing (T1566) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating security breach stemming from a successful phishing attack. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution (T1204) with moderate to high confidence (70%), with evidence including successful phishing attack, and attackers access to compromised systems. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force (T1110) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating phishing attack (implied credential harvesting) and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating attackers access to compromised systems (likely via stolen credentials). Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating security Operations Center detected the attack swiftly. Under the Lateral Movement tactic, the analysis identified Remote Services (T1021) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating attackers access to compromised systems (implied lateral movement). Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating incident had a limited impact (no confirmed exfiltration). These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.