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Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (BRO1769309760)

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Rankiteo Incident Impact-1
Company Score Before Incident846 / 1000
Company Score After Incident845 / 1000
Company LinkView Broadcom Profile
INCIDENT NUMBERBRO1769309760
Type of Cyber IncidentVulnerability
ATTACK VECTORNetwork access to vCenter Server
DATA EXPOSEDNA
INCIDENT DATE31/12/2023
STATUSActive exploitation confirmed

Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis

  • Timeline of Broadcom's Vulnerability 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 Broadcom 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 Broadcom breach identified under incident ID BRO1769309760.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Broadcom's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/broadcom, the number of followers: 616560, the industry type: Semiconductor Manufacturing and the number of employees: 55707 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 846 and after the incident was 845 with a difference of -1 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 Broadcom and their customers.

Broadcom (VMware) recently reported "CISA Flags Actively Exploited VMware vCenter Server Vulnerability (CVE-2024-37079)", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.

The U.S.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting VMware vCenter Server.

In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Patching, and began remediation that includes Apply VMware-released patches.

The case underscores how Active exploitation confirmed, teams are taking away lessons such as Growing targeting of virtualization infrastructure as a critical component in enterprise IT environments, and recommending next steps like Prioritize patching for affected VMware vCenter Server versions to mitigate unauthorized access and lateral movement risks, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Federal agencies under CISA’s BOD 22-01 must remediate by specified deadline; private sector advised to act swiftly.

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 high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating cVE-2024-37079 allows attackers with network access to execute arbitrary code. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in VMware vCenter Server. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating potentially gaining full control over the system. Under the Lateral Movement tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation of Remote Services (T1210) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating lateral movement within networks. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Resource Hijacking (T1496) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating full control over the system and System Shutdown/Reboot (T1529) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating virtualization infrastructure as a critical component. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.

Initial Access
Exploit Public-Facing Application (90%)
Execution
Exploitation for Client Execution (90%)
Privilege Escalation
Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (80%)
Lateral Movement
Exploitation of Remote Services (80%)
Impact
Resource Hijacking (70%)
System Shutdown/Reboot (50%)

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