Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (ACR1776198223)
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Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Acronis's Ransomware and lateral movement inside company's environment.
- Overview of affected data sets, including SSNs and PHI, and why they materially increase incident severity.
- How Rankiteo’s incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score.
- How this cyber incident impacts Acronis Rankiteo cyber scoring and cyber rating.
- Rankiteo’s MITRE ATT&CK correlation analysis for this incident, with associated confidence level.
Full Incident Analysis Transcript
In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the Acronis breach identified under incident ID ACR1776198223.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Acronis's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acronis, the number of followers: 159002, the industry type: Software Development and the number of employees: 1914 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 764 and after the incident was 551 with a difference of -213 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 Acronis and their customers.
A newly reported cybersecurity incident, "JanaWare Ransomware Targets Turkey in Low-Cost, High-Volume Campaign", has drawn attention.
Cybersecurity firm Acronis has uncovered a localized ransomware campaign, JanaWare, specifically targeting users in Turkey since 2020.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Files encrypted, plus an estimated financial loss of $32 million (broader ransomware ecosystem, not specific to JanaWare).
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how teams are taking away lessons such as Localized ransomware campaigns can persist quietly in the threat landscape due to geographic restrictions, hindering international detection and analysis.
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.
MITRE ATT&CK® Correlation Analysis
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 infections spread via phishing emails containing malicious Java archives and Phishing: Spearphishing Link (T1566.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating opening a Google Drive-linked email in Microsoft Outlook. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating files were encrypted after opening a Google Drive-linked email and Command and Scripting Interpreter: Visual Basic (T1059.005) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating malicious Java archives used in phishing emails. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating adwind malware, a heavily obfuscated strain designed to bypass security analysis and Execution Guardrails (T1480) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating geofenced malware strain restricts execution to Turkish language settings and IP addresses. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (100%), with evidence including files were encrypted, and data encryption such as Yes in ransomware details. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Web Service (T1102) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating victims instructed to contact attackers via qTox, a decentralized chat platform. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Acronis Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/acronis/incident/ACR1776198223
- Acronis CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/acronis
- Acronis Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/acr1776198223-janaware-ransomware-january-2020/
- Acronis CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/acronis/history
- Acronis CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://therecord.media/new-janaware-ransomware-targeting-turkey
- Rankiteo A.I CyberSecurity Rating methodology: https://www.rankiteo.com/Images/rankiteo_algo.pdf
- Rankiteo TPRM Scoring methodology: https://static.rankiteo.com/model/rankiteo_tprm_methodology.pdf