Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (FREFRE1768907025)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Freestyle Technology'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 Freestyle Technology 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 Freestyle Technology breach identified under incident ID FREFRE1768907025.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Freestyle Technology's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/freestyle-technology, the number of followers: 802, the industry type: IT Services and IT Consulting 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 750 and after the incident was 555 with a difference of -195 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 Freestyle Technology and their customers.
Free recently reported "French Telecom Giants Fined €42 Million Over Massive Data Breach", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
France’s data protection authority, CNIL, has imposed a combined €42 million fine on telecom operators Free and Free Mobile following an October 2024 cyberattack that compromised the personal data of 24 million subscribers.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Personal data, bank account details, with nearly 24 million records at risk, plus an estimated financial loss of €42 million (fines).
In response, and began remediation that includes Implement security upgrades and Remove unauthorized data, and stakeholders are being briefed through Breach notification emails (deemed inadequate by CNIL).
The case underscores how Completed (CNIL investigation), teams are taking away lessons such as Inadequate security measures (weak VPN authentication, poor detection of abnormal activity) and improper breach notification can lead to significant regulatory penalties and reputational damage, and recommending next steps like Strengthen VPN authentication, Improve detection of abnormal system activity and Ensure clear and transparent breach notifications, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Breach notification emails (deemed inadequate by CNIL).
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 External Remote Services (T1133) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating weak VPN authentication enabled the attack. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force (T1110) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating weak VPN authentication as critical vulnerability and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating vPN access likely exploited using compromised credentials. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Network Service Discovery (T1046) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating poor detection of abnormal system activity. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating personal data, bank account details compromised. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating 24 million subscribers data exposed. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating poor detection of abnormal system activity. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating retaining former customer data beyond legal limits. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Freestyle Technology Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/freestyle-technology/incident/FREFRE1768907025
- Freestyle Technology CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/freestyle-technology
- Freestyle Technology Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/frefre1768907025-free-mobile-free-breach-october-2024/
- Freestyle Technology CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/freestyle-technology/history
- Freestyle Technology CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://dig.watch/updates/french-regulator-fines-free-and-free-mobile
- 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