Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (BAD1772735632)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Badesaba | بادصبا's Cyber Attack 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 Badesaba | بادصبا 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 Badesaba | بادصبا breach identified under incident ID BAD1772735632.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Badesaba | بادصبا's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/badesaba, the number of followers: 1475, the industry type: IT Services and IT Consulting and the number of employees: 61 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 751 and after the incident was 733 with a difference of -18 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 Badesaba | بادصبا and their customers.
On 28 October 2023, BadeSaba disclosed Cyberattack, Disinformation and DDoS issues under the banner "Cyber Operations Accompanying U.S.-Israeli Strikes on Iran".
A series of cyberattacks unfolded alongside joint U.S.-Israeli military strikes targeting locations across Iran.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Government Services, Military Systems and News Websites.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how Ongoing, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Cybersecurity firms warn of escalating activity from Iranian-aligned threat actors, including reconnaissance, DDoS, and data-wiping operations.
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 to high confidence (80%), with evidence including hacking of Iranian news websites, and compromise of BadeSaba, a widely used religious calendar app and External Remote Services (T1133) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating internet connectivity in Iran experienced sharp drops. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating badeSaba app displayed messages urging users to abandon weapons. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Defacement: Internal Defacement (T1491.001) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including website Defacement, and badeSaba app displayed messages urging users, Network Denial of Service (T1498) with moderate to high confidence (80%), with evidence including internet connectivity in Iran experienced sharp drops, and dDoS attacks mentioned, and Service Stop (T1489) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating targeted Iranian government services and military systems to hinder retaliation. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating compromise of BadeSaba app with 5M+ government supporters. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Application Layer Protocol: Web Protocols (T1071.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating cyberattacks unfolded alongside joint U.S.-Israeli military strikes. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Badesaba | بادصبا Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/badesaba/incident/BAD1772735632
- Badesaba | بادصبا CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/badesaba
- Badesaba | بادصبا Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/bad1772735632-badesaba-cyber-attack-september-2022/
- Badesaba | بادصبا CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/badesaba/history
- Badesaba | بادصبا CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://arizonadigitalfreepress.com/hackers-hit-iranian-apps-websites-after-us-israeli-strikes/
- 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