Barts Health NHS Trust Breach Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (BAR1765216474)

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the Barts Health NHS Trust breach identified under incident ID BAR1765216474.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Barts Health NHS Trust's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/barts-health-nhs-trust, the number of followers: 78381, the industry type: Hospitals and Health Care and the number of employees: 9885 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 779 and after the incident was 685 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 Barts Health NHS Trust and their customers.

Barts Health NHS Trust recently reported "Cl0p Ransomware Exploits Oracle E-Business Suite at Barts Health NHS Trust", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.

Barts Health NHS Trust confirmed that the Cl0p ransomware group exploited a vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite to steal invoice-related data, including names, addresses, and records of patients and former staff.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Database containing invoices, and exposing Invoice-related data, names, addresses, patient and former staff records.

In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Data breach notification letter posted.

The case underscores how with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Data breach notification letter posted to affected individuals.

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 Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with high confidence (95%), with evidence including exploitation of Oracle E-Business Suite vulnerability, and cl0p ransomware exploited Oracle E-Business Suite. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including cl0p published the stolen data on the dark web, and data exfiltration such as Yes and Automated Exfiltration (T1020) with moderate to high confidence (80%), with evidence including invoice-related data, names, addresses, and records stolen, and data exfiltration such as Yes. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Credential Access (T1212) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating exploitation of Oracle E-Business Suite vulnerability (implied credential access). Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating cl0p ransomware attack (typical ransomware behavior) and Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack (potential data destruction if demands unmet). Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Indicator Removal: Clear Windows Event Logs (T1070.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating breach wasnt spotted until Cl0p published stolen data (delayed detection). These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.