Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (CVC1774643716)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Cardiovascular Consultants, LTD, Arizona'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 Cardiovascular Consultants, LTD, Arizona 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 Cardiovascular Consultants, LTD, Arizona breach identified under incident ID CVC1774643716.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Cardiovascular Consultants, LTD, Arizona's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cvcheartaz, the number of followers: 530, the industry type: Medical Practices and the number of employees: 76 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 756 and after the incident was 627 with a difference of -129 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 Cardiovascular Consultants, LTD, Arizona and their customers.
Cardiovascular Consultants Ltd. recently reported "Cardiovascular Consultants Data Breach Lawsuit Settlement", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
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The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Sensitive personal and health information, plus an estimated financial loss of $3,850,000 (settlement amount).
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Breach notifications sent to affected individuals.
The case underscores how Settled (pending court approval), with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Breach notifications sent to affected individuals with compensation details.
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 Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating breach that exposed sensitive personal and health information and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating data breach impacting thousands of U.S. residents. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Modify Authentication Process (T1556) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating exposure of Social Security numbers and medical records and OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating compromised data includes names, Social Security numbers. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating medical records, insurance details, and addresses compromised and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating sensitive personal and health information exposed. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data breach impacting thousands of U.S. residents and Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating high sensitivity of compromised data (PII/PHI). Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating $3.85M settlement for data breach lawsuit and Data Manipulation: Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating exposure of medical records and insurance details. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Cardiovascular Consultants, LTD, Arizona Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/cvcheartaz/incident/CVC1774643716
- Cardiovascular Consultants, LTD, Arizona CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/cvcheartaz
- Cardiovascular Consultants, LTD, Arizona Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/cvc1774643716-cardiovascular-consultants-ltd-breach-september-2023/
- Cardiovascular Consultants, LTD, Arizona CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/cvcheartaz/history
- Cardiovascular Consultants, LTD, Arizona CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.claimdepot.com/settlements/cvc-data-settlement
- 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