Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (DOLMONUSD1770602763)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Dole plc's Ransomware 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 Dole plc 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 Dole plc breach identified under incident ID DOLMONUSD1770602763.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Dole plc's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dole-plc, the number of followers: 24467, the industry type: Food and Beverage Manufacturing and the number of employees: 1240 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 753 and after the incident was 655 with a difference of -98 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 Dole plc and their customers.
Dole recently reported "Ransomware Surge Targets U.S. Food and Agriculture Sector in 2023", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
The U.S.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Sensitive industry data, intellectual property (genetic crop research).
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how Ongoing, teams are taking away lessons such as Ransomware attacks can cause supply chain cascades, disrupt operations, and expose high-value intellectual property. Law enforcement disruptions can temporarily reduce attack volumes, but threat actors adapt quickly, and recommending next steps like Strengthen cybersecurity defenses, fund digital protections for the sector, establish a cybersecurity hub for guidance and support, and enhance monitoring of ransomware trends, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Congress introduced bipartisan legislation to strengthen cybersecurity in the sector, including funding for digital defenses and a cybersecurity hub.
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 exploitation of a popular file transfer tool and External Remote Services (T1133) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating file transfer tool vulnerability exploited. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attacks targeting the sector. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating exploitation of file transfer tools implies access. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating file transfer tool vulnerability exploited. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware strains (LockBit, BlackCat, Play) and Execution Guardrails (T1480) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware affiliates shifting to new strains. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Adversary-in-the-Middle (T1557) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating exploitation of file transfer tools. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified File and Directory Discovery (T1083) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating intellectual property (genetic crop research) targeted. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating sensitive industry data, intellectual property compromised. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Application Layer Protocol (T1071) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware strains (LockBit, BlackCat) known for C2. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration confirmed in ransomware attacks. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (100%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware encryption confirmed, Inhibit System Recovery (T1490) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attacks disrupting operations, and Defacement (T1491) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware strains may deface systems. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Dole plc Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/dole-plc/incident/DOLMONUSD1770602763
- Dole plc CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/dole-plc
- Dole plc Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/dolmonusd1770602763-usda-mondelez-dole-ransomware-january-2023/
- Dole plc CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/dole-plc/history
- Dole plc CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://therecord.media/food-and-agriculture-hit-with-ransomware-attacks
- 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