City of Durant Breach Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (CIT1767304505)

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the City of Durant breach identified under incident ID CIT1767304505.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of City of Durant's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/city-of-durant-oklahoma, the number of followers: 268, the industry type: Government Administration and the number of employees: 97 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 762 and after the incident was 584 with a difference of -178 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 City of Durant and their customers.

City of Durant recently reported "Ransomware Attacks on Government Systems in Ohio, Oklahoma, and Puerto Rico", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.

Cybercriminals targeted government systems in Ohio, Oklahoma, and Puerto Rico over the past week, limiting critical services for thousands.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting websites, digital and credit card payments and court systems, and exposing 477 GB of data (Abilene, TX), with nearly 500,000+ (Columbus, OH) records at risk.

In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Systems taken offline and Protocols initiated to contain the attack, and began remediation that includes Replacing network infrastructure (Abilene), and stakeholders are being briefed through Social media updates and Public advisories.

The case underscores how Ongoing, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Social media updates and Public notices.

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 moderate to high confidence (70%), with evidence including government systems targeted, and websites and digital payment systems affected and External Remote Services (T1133) with moderate confidence (60%), with evidence including network outages reported, and systems taken offline. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating ransomHub ransomware gang claimed responsibility. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (95%), with evidence including ransomware attack, and data encryption confirmed and Defacement: Internal Defacement (T1491.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), with evidence including websites remain offline, and systems taken offline. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (85%), supported by evidence indicating 477 GB of data exfiltrated (Abilene, TX). Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force: Password Guessing (T1110.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating pattern of ransomware attacks on governments. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Indicator Removal: Clear Windows Event Logs (T1070.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), with evidence including ongoing investigation, and containment measures initiated and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate to high confidence (75%), with evidence including systems taken offline, and network outages reported. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.