Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (AUR1773923568)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Aura Event & Experiences's Breach 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 Aura Event & Experiences 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 Aura Event & Experiences breach identified under incident ID AUR1773923568.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Aura Event & Experiences's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aura, the number of followers: 4830, the industry type: Events Services and the number of employees: 324 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 760 and after the incident was 666 with a difference of -94 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 Aura Event & Experiences and their customers.
Aura recently reported "Aura Confirms Data Breach Affecting Nearly 900,000 Records After Vishing Attack", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
Aura, a digital security provider, disclosed a data breach exposing nearly 900,000 records following a voice phishing (vishing) attack targeting an employee.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Marketing platform (acquired in 2021), and exposing Nearly 900,000 records, with nearly Nearly 900,000 records at risk.
In response, teams activated the incident response plan, and stakeholders are being briefed through Direct notifications to affected individuals, added to Have I Been Pwned.
The case underscores how Ongoing, teams are taking away lessons such as Risks associated with inherited systems from mergers and acquisitions, persistent threat of phishing-led compromises leading to extortion and data leaks, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Direct notifications planned.
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: Vishing (T1566.004) with high confidence (95%), supported by evidence indicating voice phishing (vishing) attack targeting an employee. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials (T1552) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating inherited marketing platform vulnerabilities. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating compromised data included full names, email addresses, home addresses and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (85%), supported by evidence indicating leaked CRM dataset with over 900,000 email records. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating alleged theft of 12GB of files containing customer and internal data and Exfiltration Over Web Service (T1567) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating shinyHunters listed Aura on its extortion site. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating data breach exposing nearly 900,000 records and Data Manipulation: Transmitted Data Manipulation (T1565.002) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating stolen contact information could fuel follow-up phishing. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Aura Event & Experiences Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/aura/incident/AUR1773923568
- Aura Event & Experiences CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/aura
- Aura Event & Experiences Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/aur1773923568-aura-breach-january-2025/
- Aura Event & Experiences CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/aura/history
- Aura Event & Experiences CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/aura-data-breach
- 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