Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (FIR1792412825)

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the FirstVDS breach identified under incident ID FIR1792412825.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of FirstVDS's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/firstvds, the number of followers: 93, the industry type: Technology, Information and Internet and the number of employees: 24 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 769 and after the incident was 699 with a difference of -70 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 FirstVDS and their customers.

On 12 November 2023, FirstVDS disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "FirstVDS Breach Exposes Customer Data via VMmanager Vulnerability".

Russian hosting provider FirstVDS confirmed that hackers exploited a vulnerability in VMmanager 6, a virtualization management platform by ISPsystem, to steal sensitive customer data.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Virtual servers managed via VMmanager 6, and exposing Passwords, cloud service credentials, configuration files, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data.

In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Disabled external access to the vulnerable management system, blocked communication with attackers’ server, and began remediation that includes Applied patches from ISPsystem, advised against re-enabling management interface until further fixes, while recovery efforts such as Continued operations with restrictions, limited VMmanager functionality continue, and stakeholders are being briefed through Notified affected customers to reset credentials.

The case underscores how Ongoing, and recommending next steps like Reset credentials, apply security patches, avoid re-enabling vulnerable interfaces until fully resolved, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Affected customers notified to reset credentials and assume data was stolen.

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.