Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (AKZ1772583818)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of AkzoNobel'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 AkzoNobel 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 AkzoNobel breach identified under incident ID AKZ1772583818.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of AkzoNobel's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/akzonobel, the number of followers: 911509, the industry type: Chemical Manufacturing and the number of employees: 31151 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 784 and after the incident was 657 with a difference of -127 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 AkzoNobel and their customers.
AkzoNobel recently reported "AkzoNobel Cyberattack by Anubis Ransomware Gang", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
Dutch multinational paint and coatings giant AkzoNobel confirmed a cybersecurity breach at one of its U.S.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Limited to one U.S. site, and exposing 170GB (nearly 170,000 files), with nearly Nearly 170,000 files records at risk.
In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Incident contained to affected site, and stakeholders are being briefed through Notifying impacted parties.
The case underscores how Ongoing, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Notifying impacted parties.
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 Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating cybersecurity breach at one of its U.S. sites and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating anubis ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the attack. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating anubis ransomware gang...exfiltrated 170GB of data. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials: Credentials In Files (T1552.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating internal emails, passport scans, technical specifications compromised. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating 170GB of data (nearly 170,000 files) exfiltrated and Email Collection: Remote Email Collection (T1114.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating internal emails compromised. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating anubis ransomware gang...exfiltrated 170GB of data. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating type such as Ransomware, Anubis ransomware gang claimed responsibility and Data Destruction (T1485) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating anubis...introduced a data-wiping tool to prevent file recovery. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating anubis ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating data-wiping tool introduced to prevent file recovery. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- AkzoNobel Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/akzonobel/incident/AKZ1772583818
- AkzoNobel CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/akzonobel
- AkzoNobel Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/akz1772583818-akzonobel-ransomware-december-2024/
- AkzoNobel CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/akzonobel/history
- AkzoNobel CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/paint-maker-giant-akzonobel-confirms-cyberattack-on-us-site/
- 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