Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (SANCOOVIDBIT1769585434)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Cooperative Computing'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 Cooperative Computing 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 Cooperative Computing breach identified under incident ID SANCOOVIDBIT1769585434.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Cooperative Computing's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cooperative-computing, the number of followers: 24023, the industry type: IT Services and IT Consulting and the number of employees: 179 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 752 and after the incident was 735 with a difference of -17 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 Cooperative Computing and their customers.
A newly reported cybersecurity incident, "HoneyMyte Threat Group Enhances Cyber Espionage Arsenal with Advanced Malware", has drawn attention.
The HoneyMyte threat group (also tracked as Mustang Panda or Bronze President) has intensified its cyber espionage campaigns, targeting government organizations across Asia and Europe with upgraded malware tools.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Government systems in Southeast Asia and Europe, and exposing Sensitive government data, browser credentials, keylogging data, clipboard data.
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 Hijack Execution Flow: DLL Side-Loading (T1574.002) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating leveraging DLL sideloading...abuses legitimate software (BitDefender, VLC Media Player, Sangfor). Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Hijack Execution Flow: DLL Side-Loading (T1574.002) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating dLL sideloading...to execute malicious payloads and Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating abuses legitimate software...to execute malicious payloads. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Hijack Execution Flow: DLL Side-Loading (T1574.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating coolClient, HoneyMyte’s primary backdoor malware...leveraging DLL sideloading and Browser Extensions (T1176) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating specialized browser credential stealers...to harvest login data. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Hijack Execution Flow: DLL Side-Loading (T1574.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating dLL sideloading...abuses legitimate software to execute malicious payloads. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Hijack Execution Flow: DLL Side-Loading (T1574.002) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating dLL sideloading...abuses legitimate software (BitDefender, VLC Media Player, Sangfor) and Masquerading (T1036) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating abuses legitimate software...to execute malicious payloads. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Credentials from Password Stores (T1555) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating specialized browser credential stealers...harvest login data from Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Credentials from Password Stores: Credentials from Web Browsers (T1555.003) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating malware extracts encrypted credentials by copying browser databases, Input Capture: Keylogging (T1056.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating keylogging and clipboard monitoring capabilities, and Clipboard Data (T1115) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating clipboard monitoring capabilities. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating malware extracts encrypted credentials by copying browser databases, Input Capture: Keylogging (T1056.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating keylogging and clipboard monitoring capabilities, and Clipboard Data (T1115) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating clipboard monitoring capabilities. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating exfiltrating the data to attacker-controlled servers. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Application Layer Protocol (T1071) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating coolClient, HoneyMyte’s primary backdoor malware. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Cooperative Computing Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/cooperative-computing/incident/SANCOOVIDBIT1769585434
- Cooperative Computing CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/cooperative-computing
- Cooperative Computing Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/sancoovidbit1769585434-vlc-media-player-sangfor-bitdefender-opera-cyber-attack-january-2025/
- Cooperative Computing CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/cooperative-computing/history
- Cooperative Computing CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://cybersecuritynews.com/honeymyte-hacker-group-updates-coolclient-malware/
- 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