Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (UNICHA1769160792)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Change Healthcare's Ransomware 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 Change Healthcare 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 Change Healthcare breach identified under incident ID UNICHA1769160792.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Change Healthcare's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/change-healthcare, the number of followers: 146919, the industry type: IT Services and IT Consulting and the number of employees: 4838 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 100 and after the incident was 100 with a difference of 0 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 Change Healthcare and their customers.
On 21 February 2024, Change Healthcare disclosed Ransomware issues under the banner "Cyberattack Disrupts Major U.S. Healthcare Network, Exposing Patient Data".
A ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, a critical payment and claims processing platform owned by UnitedHealth Group (UHG), has caused widespread disruptions across the U.S.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Payment and claims processing systems, prescription processing, insurance claims, billing operations, and exposing 6 terabytes of sensitive data.
In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Systems taken offline, while recovery efforts such as Some services restored, full recovery ongoing continue.
The case underscores how Ongoing.
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 confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating critical payment and claims processing platform owned by UHG and Supply Chain Compromise: Compromise Software Supply Chain (T1195.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating supply chain such as true, third-party healthcare vendors vulnerability. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack attributed to BlackCat/ALPHV group. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating halted prescription processing, insurance claims, billing operations. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating systems taken offline, widespread disruptions. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating blackCat/ALPHV ransomware group, data exfiltration and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating systems taken offline to contain the attack. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Adversary-in-the-Middle (T1557) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating payment details, personal information compromised. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Account Discovery (T1087) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating 6 terabytes of sensitive data exfiltrated. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating patient records, payment details, personal information compromised. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating 6 terabytes of sensitive data allegedly exfiltrated. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack, systems taken offline and Defacement: Internal Defacement (T1491.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating halted prescription processing, billing operations disrupted. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Change Healthcare Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/change-healthcare/incident/UNICHA1769160792
- Change Healthcare CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/change-healthcare
- Change Healthcare Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/unicha1769160792-unitedhealth-group-change-healthcare-ransomware-february-2024/
- Change Healthcare CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/change-healthcare/history
- Change Healthcare CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.mondaq.com/turkey/data-protection/1734996/new-rules-on-the-publication-periods-of-data-breach-notifications
- 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