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Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (COW1776258259)

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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis

Rankiteo Incident Impact-13
Company Score Before Incident801 / 1000
Company Score After Incident788 / 1000
Company LinkView CoW DAO Profile
INCIDENT NUMBERCOW1776258259
Type of Cyber IncidentCyber Attack
ATTACK VECTORDNS Hijacking
DATA EXPOSEDNA
INCIDENT DATE13/04/2026
STATUSOngoing

Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis

  • Timeline of CoW DAO'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 CoW DAO 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 CoW DAO breach identified under incident ID COW1776258259.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of CoW DAO's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cow-protocol, the number of followers: 0, the industry type: Internet Publishing and the number of employees: 38 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 801 and after the incident was 788 with a difference of -13 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 CoW DAO and their customers.

On 07 November 2023, CoW Swap disclosed DNS Hijacking issues under the banner "CoW Swap DNS Hijacking Incident".

Decentralized exchange aggregator CoW Swap temporarily suspended operations after detecting a DNS hijacking attack targeting its website.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Website (frontend), APIs (paused as precaution).

In response, teams activated the incident response plan, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Paused backend infrastructure and APIs, warned users to avoid the platform, and stakeholders are being briefed through Public advisory to users via social media/platform.

The case underscores how Ongoing, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Users advised to avoid interacting with the platform until security is restored.

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 Compromise Infrastructure: Domains (T1584.001) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including dNS hijacking attack targeting its website, and dNS hijacking where attackers redirect users to malicious sites. Under the Resource Development tactic, the analysis identified Acquire Infrastructure: Domains (T1583.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), with evidence including dNS hijacking attack targeting its website, and dNS misconfiguration. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Adversary-in-the-Middle: ARP Cache Poisoning (T1557.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating dNS hijacking where attackers redirect users to malicious sites to steal funds or data. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating potential risk if users interacted with malicious site (fund/data theft). Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating potential fund/data theft via malicious site redirection. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Defacement: Internal Defacement (T1491.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating dNS hijacking attack targeting its website (redirection to malicious sites) and Data Manipulation: Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating potential reputational damage due to security incident. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.

Initial Access
Compromise Infrastructure: Domains (90%)
Resource Development
Acquire Infrastructure: Domains (80%)
Credential Access
Adversary-in-the-Middle: ARP Cache Poisoning (70%)
Collection
Data from Information Repositories (60%)
Exfiltration
Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (70%)
Impact
Defacement: Internal Defacement (80%)
Data Manipulation: Stored Data Manipulation (60%)

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