Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (FRE1768502410)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Freedom Mobile'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 Freedom Mobile 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 Freedom Mobile breach identified under incident ID FRE1768502410.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Freedom Mobile's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/freedom-mobile, the number of followers: 24341, the industry type: Telecommunications and the number of employees: 1615 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 718 and after the incident was 521 with a difference of -197 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 Freedom Mobile and their customers.
Free recently reported "Data Breach at Free and Free Mobile", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
French telecom companies Free and Free Mobile were fined €42 million by the CNIL for GDPR violations following a data breach that compromised the personal data of over 24 million individuals, including sensitive financial information like IBANs.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting MOBO subscriber management tool, VPN, and exposing Personal data, IBANs, with nearly 24,633,468 records at risk, plus an estimated financial loss of €42 million (fines).
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
Overall, the incident is a reminder of why proactive monitoring and strong governance matter.
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 infiltrated the companies’ systems via a vulnerable VPN and External Remote Services (T1133) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating exploited a flaw in the MOBO subscriber management tool via VPN. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force (T1110) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating weak VPN authentication cited as critical security failure and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating vPN exploitation likely involved compromised or weak credentials. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Account Discovery (T1087) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating compromised 19.5M Free Mobile and 5.2M Free fixed-line contracts and File and Directory Discovery (T1083) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating personal and financial data (IBANs) accessed via MOBO tool. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating exposed personal and financial data of over 24 million individuals. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating data breach affecting 24M individuals; IBANs compromised. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating inadequate anomaly detection cited as critical failure and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating weak VPN authentication enabled unauthorized access. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating no explicit evidence, but large-scale breach implies potential data tampering and Defacement (T1491) with lower confidence (20%), supported by evidence indicating no evidence, but telecom breaches often involve reputational harm. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Freedom Mobile Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/freedom-mobile/incident/FRE1768502410
- Freedom Mobile CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/freedom-mobile
- Freedom Mobile Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/fre1768502410-free-breach-september-2024/
- Freedom Mobile CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/freedom-mobile/history
- Freedom Mobile CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.scworld.com/brief/french-telecoms-fined-e42-million-for-major-gdpr-data-breach
- 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