Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (TETCSD1787121730)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Road Traffic Safety Directorate (CSDD)'s Breach 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 Road Traffic Safety Directorate (CSDD) 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 Road Traffic Safety Directorate (CSDD) breach identified under incident ID TETCSD1787121730.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Road Traffic Safety Directorate (CSDD)'s information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/csdd, the number of followers: 1230, the industry type: Government Administration and the number of employees: 150 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 761 and after the incident was 654 with a difference of -107 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 Road Traffic Safety Directorate (CSDD) and their customers.
On 07 August 2024, Road Traffic Safety Directorate (CSDD) disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Latvia’s Road Traffic Safety Directorate Suffers Major Cyberattack Amid Monitoring Failures".
Latvia’s Road Traffic Safety Directorate (CSDD) was hit by a significant cyberattack between August 7 and 8, resulting in the theft of personal data belonging to 1.2 million individuals and records from 200,000 legal entities spanning 18 years of payment transactions.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting CSDD payment transaction systems, and exposing Personal data of 1.2 million individuals and records from 200,000 legal entities, with nearly 1.4 million (1.2M individuals + 200K legal entities) records at risk.
In response, teams activated the incident response plan, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Breach contained within hours by CSDD’s cybersecurity team, and stakeholders are being briefed through Public disclosure by CSDD Chairman and Prime Minister.
The case underscores how Ongoing (accelerated internal investigation by Transport Minister), teams are taking away lessons such as Failure of third-party monitoring provider (Tet) to detect the breach; need for improved cybersecurity oversight in public-sector infrastructure, and recommending next steps like Strengthen monitoring agreements with cybersecurity agencies like CERT.LV, Enhance internal cybersecurity capabilities and Review third-party vendor contracts for accountability, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Prime Minister holds CSDD Management and Supervisory Boards accountable; potential foreign state involvement suspected.
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 high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating exploited a vulnerability in an internet-accessible CSDD system. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Steal Application Access Token (T1528) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating internet-accessible system likely required authentication. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating theft of personal data belonging to 1.2 million individuals and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating records from 200,000 legal entities spanning 18 years. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating data breach resulting in the theft of personal data and Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating potential hybrid operation by a foreign state. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating tet failed to detect the intrusion despite monitoring contract. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating significant cyberattack with data theft and Defacement: Internal Defacement (T1491.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating disruption of CSDD services, internal investigation launched. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Road Traffic Safety Directorate (CSDD) Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/csdd/incident/TETCSD1787121730
- Road Traffic Safety Directorate (CSDD) CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/csdd
- Road Traffic Safety Directorate (CSDD) Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/tetcsd1787121730-latvias-road-traffic-safety-directorate-tet-breach-august-2026/
- Road Traffic Safety Directorate (CSDD) CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/csdd/history
- Road Traffic Safety Directorate (CSDD) CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://bnn-news.com/search-for-accountability-begins-after-massive-data-breach-in-latvia-csdd-chief-points-to-tet-282962
- 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