Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (EQU1781519573)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Equinix'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 Equinix 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 Equinix breach identified under incident ID EQU1781519573.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Equinix's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/equinix, the number of followers: 549601, the industry type: Internet Publishing and the number of employees: 14004 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 772 and after the incident was 691 with a difference of -81 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 Equinix and their customers.
Equinix recently reported "Equinix Ransomware Attack on Internal Systems", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
Equinix, a global data center and interconnection provider, confirmed a security incident involving ransomware on some of its internal systems.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Internal systems, and exposing Financial records, payroll, accounting, and audit data.
In response, teams activated the incident response plan, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Containment efforts progressed, preventing release of compromised data, and began remediation that includes Internal systems nearing full restoration, while recovery efforts such as Internal systems nearing full restoration continue, and stakeholders are being briefed through Assured customers that data centers and service offerings remained operational.
The case underscores how Contained and resolved, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Assured customers that data centers and service offerings remained operational.
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 moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware on some of its internal systems and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating internal systems affected; likely required valid credentials. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack involving Netwalker strain. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task (T1053.005) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware strain (Netwalker) typically uses persistence mechanisms. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating access to financial records, payroll, accounting data. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack (Netwalker) often uses obfuscation and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware typically disables security tools. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating access to payroll, accounting, and audit data. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Account Discovery (T1087) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating targeted financial records, payroll, and audit data and File and Directory Discovery (T1083) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware identified and encrypted sensitive data. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating financial records, payroll, accounting, audit data compromised. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack with data encryption (Netwalker strain) and Service Stop (T1489) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating internal systems affected; containment efforts required. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating threatened to release compromised data if ransom unpaid. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Equinix Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/equinix/incident/EQU1781519573
- Equinix CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/equinix
- Equinix Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/equ1781519573-equinix-ransomware-september-2020/
- Equinix CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/equinix/history
- Equinix CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/equinixs-internal-systems-hit-ransomware-data-centers-remain-fully-operational/
- 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