Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (DAVCAECHAPOWKASFILMARSOLNAS1770898846)
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Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Caesars Entertainment'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 Caesars Entertainment 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 Caesars Entertainment breach identified under incident ID DAVCAECHAPOWKASFILMARSOLNAS1770898846.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Caesars Entertainment's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/caesars-entertainment-inc, the number of followers: 169785, the industry type: Hospitality and the number of employees: 18132 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 549 and after the incident was 514 with a difference of -35 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 Caesars Entertainment and their customers.
PowerSchool recently reported "Ransomware Trends and High-Profile Attacks (2024-2025)", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
Ransomware remains a critical threat to governments, businesses, and critical infrastructure, disrupting healthcare, fuel distribution, retail, and identity security.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Healthcare, Fuel distribution and Retail, and exposing 62M students and 9.5M teachers (PowerSchool), 5.6M patient records (Yale New Haven Health) and 1TB of data (NASCAR), with nearly ['62M', '9.5M', '5.6M', '1TB', '2.7M', '193M', '16.6M'] records at risk.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
Overall, the incident is a reminder of why proactive monitoring and strong governance matter.
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 Supply Chain Compromise (T1195) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including supply Chain Attacks – Threat actors target software vendors, and 2023 MoveIt Transfer breach (Clop ransomware gang), Phishing (T1566) with moderate to high confidence (80%), with evidence including phishing remains a primary infection vector, and phishing & AI-Driven Attacks, and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating exploiting Unpatched Systems – Most ransomware exploits known flaws. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution (T1204) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating phishing remains a primary infection vector and Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) – Cybercriminals lease pre-built tools. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Supply Chain Compromise: Compromise Software Supply Chain (T1195.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating 2021 Kaseya attack (1,500+ MSP customers affected). Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating exploiting Unpatched Systems – Known flaws in outdated software. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) – Pre-built ransomware tools and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware disrupts healthcare, fuel distribution, retail. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force (T1110) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating phishing & AI-Driven Attacks – Social engineering lures and Credentials from Password Stores (T1555) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating supply chain attacks compromise downstream victims. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Account Discovery (T1087) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating 62M students and 9.5M teachers (PowerSchool) data compromised and File and Directory Discovery (T1083) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating 1TB of data stolen (NASCAR). Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating 5.6M patient records (Yale New Haven Health) compromised and Data from Cloud Storage (T1530) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating 193M victims (Change Healthcare) data exfiltrated. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Application Layer Protocol (T1071) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating lockBit 5.0 uses private negotiation portals for extortion. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration confirmed in multiple incidents and Exfiltration Over Web Service (T1567) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating 1TB of data stolen (NASCAR). Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware strain data encryption confirmed, Defacement (T1491) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating operational disruptions (Marks & Spencer, Ingram Micro), and Service Stop (T1489) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating disrupted loan services (LoanDepot), casino operations (MGM/Caesars). These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Caesars Entertainment Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/caesars-entertainment-inc/incident/DAVCAECHAPOWKASFILMARSOLNAS1770898846
- Caesars Entertainment CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/caesars-entertainment-inc
- Caesars Entertainment Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/davcaechapowkasfilmarsolnas1770898846-solarwinds-kaseya-moveit-transfer-powerschool-davita-nascar-marks-spencer-caesars-entertainment-change-healthcare-cyber-attack-december-2024/
- Caesars Entertainment CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/caesars-entertainment-inc/history
- Caesars Entertainment CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/feature/Ransomware-trends-statistics-and-facts
- 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