Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (CON1781519095)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Conti LLC'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 Conti LLC 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 Conti LLC breach identified under incident ID CON1781519095.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Conti LLC's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/conti-llc, the number of followers: 78, the industry type: Construction and the number of employees: 4 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 685 and after the incident was 322 with a difference of -363 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 Conti LLC and their customers.
A newly reported cybersecurity incident, "Ukrainian National Pleads Guilty in Conti Ransomware Conspiracy", has drawn attention.
A 44-year-old Ukrainian national, Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko, has pleaded guilty to his role in the Conti ransomware operation, one of the most destructive cybercrime campaigns in recent history.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Critical data encrypted and stolen, plus an estimated financial loss of $150 million.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
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 (60%), supported by evidence indicating compromised networks across 47 U.S. states and 31 countries and Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment (T1566.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating malware loader used to deploy additional malicious software. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating malware loader...used to deploy additional malicious software and Command and Scripting Interpreter: Windows Command Shell (T1059.003) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating conti ransomware operation...encrypting critical data. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating conti group compromised networks...encrypting critical data. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating malware loader...deploy additional malicious software on compromised systems. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating malware loader...used to deploy additional malicious software and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating conti ransomware operation...encrypting critical data. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating stolen data from eight U.S. and four international victims. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified File and Directory Discovery (T1083) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating data encryption and extortion...threatening to leak stolen information. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating critical data encrypted and stolen...personally identifiable information. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Application Layer Protocol: Web Protocols (T1071.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating conti ransomware operation...targeted over 1,000 victims worldwide. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration...threatening to leak stolen information. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (100%), supported by evidence indicating conti ransomware operation...encrypting critical data and Service Stop (T1489) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating attack threatening the organizations existence. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Conti LLC Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/conti-llc/incident/CON1781519095
- Conti LLC CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/conti-llc
- Conti LLC Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/con1781519095-conti-ransomware-operation-ransomware-january-2020/
- Conti LLC CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/conti-llc/history
- Conti LLC CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://thecyberexpress.com/conti-ransomware-conspirator-pleads-guilty/
- 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