Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwan Breach Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (DEM1766550830)

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwan breach identified under incident ID DEM1766550830.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwan's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/democratic-progressive-party-taiwan, the number of followers: 419, the industry type: Political Organizations and the number of employees: 27 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 762 and after the incident was 735 with a difference of -27 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 Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwan and their customers.

A newly reported cybersecurity incident, "Chinese Authorities Accuse Taiwan-Backed Hacker Group of Cyberattacks on Sensitive Infrastructure", has drawn attention.

Chinese authorities have accused a hacker group allegedly backed by Taiwan of carrying out a cyberattack on a local technology company and targeting sensitive infrastructure across the mainland.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Military systems, Energy systems and Transportation systems.

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.

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 Phishing (T1566) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating phishing emails, Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating exploitation of known software vulnerabilities, and Brute Force (T1110) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating brute-force password attacks. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force (T1110) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating brute-force password attacks. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Dynamic Resolution (T1568) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating routing operations through VPNs, foreign cloud services and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating compromised devices in multiple countries. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Proxy (T1090) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating routing operations through VPNs, foreign cloud services. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating espionage efforts using self-developed Trojans. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.