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Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (PACFSM1768391319)

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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis

Rankiteo Incident Impact-126
Company Score Before Incident764 / 1000
Company Score After Incident638 / 1000
Company LinkView FSM Department of Health and Social Affairs Profile
INCIDENT NUMBERPACFSM1768391319
Type of Cyber IncidentRansomware
ATTACK VECTORNA
DATA EXPOSEDNA
INCIDENT DATE15/03/2025
STATUSOngoing

Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis

  • Timeline of FSM Department of Health and Social Affairs'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 FSM Department of Health and Social Affairs 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 FSM Department of Health and Social Affairs breach identified under incident ID PACFSM1768391319.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of FSM Department of Health and Social Affairs's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fsm-dhsa, the number of followers: 38, the industry type: Government Administration and the number of employees: 18 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 764 and after the incident was 638 with a difference of -126 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 FSM Department of Health and Social Affairs and their customers.

On 16 March 2025, Yap Health Department disclosed ransomware issues under the banner "Ransomware Attack on Yap Health Department".

A ransomware attack hit the Micronesian state of Yap, causing the health system network to go down.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Health Department network, digital health systems, email servers.

In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Network taken offline, all computers shut down, and began remediation that includes Assessing extent of infiltration, determining data breach, restoring services, and stakeholders are being briefed through Facebook announcement, public reassurance of continued services.

The case underscores how Ongoing, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Public reassurance of continued services with slower response times.

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 forced the shutdown of its entire government health network and Valid Accounts (T1078) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating no details on attack vector, but health systems often targeted via phishing. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack detected, likely via malicious file execution. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack forced shutdown of health network. 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; encryption implies obfuscation of data and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating network taken offline, all computers shut down to contain threat. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating assessing extent of infiltration, determining data breach. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.

Initial Access
Exploit Public-Facing Application (50%)
Valid Accounts (40%)
Execution
User Execution: Malicious File (60%)
Impact
Data Encrypted for Impact (90%)
Defense Evasion
Obfuscated Files or Information (70%)
Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (60%)
Exfiltration
Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (50%)

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