Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (FOU1765217383)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Four Hands'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 Four Hands 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 Four Hands breach identified under incident ID FOU1765217383.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Four Hands's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/four-hands, the number of followers: 38164, the industry type: Wholesale Furniture and Home Furnishings and the number of employees: 693 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 751 and after the incident was 678 with a difference of -73 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 Four Hands and their customers.
On 27 December 2023, Four Hands LLC disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Four Hands Data Breach Class Action Settlement".
Four Hands LLC agreed to pay $250,000 to resolve a class action lawsuit alleging it failed to adequately protect consumer data during a cyber incident.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Personal and financial information, plus an estimated financial loss of $250,000 (settlement amount).
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Notices sent to affected individuals.
The case underscores how with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Notices sent to affected individuals regarding potential exposure of personal information.
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 to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating failed to adequately protect consumer data during a cyber incident and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating data security incident that occurred between December 2023 and January 2024. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials (T1552) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating failed to adequately protect consumer data. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol (T1048) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating information compromised included SSNs, passport numbers, financial account info and Automated Exfiltration (T1020) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating data security incident potentially exposed personal information. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating cyber incident with high identity theft risk and Data Manipulation: Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating potential exposure of personal and financial information. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Four Hands Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/four-hands/incident/FOU1765217383
- Four Hands CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/four-hands
- Four Hands Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/fou1765217383-four-hands-breach-december-2023/
- Four Hands CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/four-hands/history
- Four Hands CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.claimdepot.com/settlements/four-hands-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