Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (COLCYR1788296947)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Colt Technology Services'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 Colt Technology Services 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 Colt Technology Services breach identified under incident ID COLCYR1788296947.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Colt Technology Services's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/colt-technology-services, the number of followers: 292523, the industry type: Telecommunications and the number of employees: 5063 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 774 and after the incident was 670 with a difference of -104 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 Colt Technology Services and their customers.
Louisiana Office of Technology Services recently reported "Louisiana State Servers Disabled and CyrusOne Hit by REvil Ransomware", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
Louisiana’s Office of Technology Services temporarily disabled state servers to prevent ransomware spread, disrupting email, websites, and online applications.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting State servers (Louisiana), managed service customer devices (CyrusOne), and exposing Files encrypted (data exfiltration possible).
In response, teams activated the incident response plan, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Temporary server shutdown (Louisiana); isolation of affected systems (CyrusOne).
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%), with evidence including attack threatening the organizations existence, and likely phishing, exploit, or third-party compromise, Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating managed service customers primarily in its New York data center, and Supply Chain Compromise (T1195) with moderate to high confidence (80%), with evidence including supply chain such as true, and 13 MSPs or cloud providers fallen victim. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), with evidence including rEvil ransomware attack encrypted devices, and executes rapidly to encrypt files and Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating obfuscating Windows API calls to evade detection. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating managed service customers experienced outages. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating sophisticated design...to encrypt files while obfuscating. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating obfuscating Windows API calls to evade detection and Process Injection (T1055) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating executes rapidly to encrypt files. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating managed service customers experienced outages. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified File and Directory Discovery (T1083) with moderate to high confidence (70%), with evidence including files encrypted by REvil, and data exfiltration possible. Under the Lateral Movement tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation of Remote Services (T1210) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating six managed service customers primarily in its New York data center. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating files encrypted (data exfiltration possible). Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Application Layer Protocol (T1071) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating rEvil known for double extortion tactics. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration possible (REvil known for double extortion). Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (100%), with evidence including rEvil ransomware attack encrypted devices, and files encrypted by REvil and Inhibit System Recovery (T1490) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating temporarily disabled state servers to prevent spread. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Colt Technology Services Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/colt-technology-services/incident/COLCYR1788296947
- Colt Technology Services CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/colt-technology-services
- Colt Technology Services Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/colcyr1788296947-cyrusone-cyrusone-managed-service-customers-louisiana-office-of-technology-services-ransomware-december-2019/
- Colt Technology Services CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/colt-technology-services/history
- Colt Technology Services CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.ciodive.com/news/cyrusone-ransomware-REvil/568549/
- 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