Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (GEOMAETEL1780527547)
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Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Georgian Public Broadcaster's Cyber Attack 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 Georgian Public Broadcaster 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 Georgian Public Broadcaster breach identified under incident ID GEOMAETEL1780527547.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Georgian Public Broadcaster's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/georgian-public-broadcaster, the number of followers: 1951, the industry type: Broadcast Media Production and Distribution and the number of employees: 303 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 760 and after the incident was 736 with a difference of -24 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 Georgian Public Broadcaster and their customers.
Imedi TV recently reported "Massive Cyberattack Disrupts Georgia’s Media and Government Websites", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
A large-scale cyberattack struck Georgia, crippling over 2,000 websites, including government portals, non-governmental organizations, and private companies.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Over 2,000 websites, including government portals, NGOs, and private companies, and exposing Sensitive case materials and personal data.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how Ongoing.
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%), with evidence including poorly protected and vulnerable government websites, and over 2,000 websites...crippled. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Defacement (T1491) with high confidence (100%), with evidence including many affected sites displayed a defaced homepage, and image of former Georgian President, Data Destruction (T1485) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating maestro reporting damaged or destroyed equipment, and Service Stop (T1489) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating imedi TV going off-air for nearly an hour. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating court websites containing sensitive case materials and personal data. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating sensitive case materials and personal data compromised. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating poorly protected and vulnerable government websites. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Georgian Public Broadcaster Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/georgian-public-broadcaster/incident/GEOMAETEL1780527547
- Georgian Public Broadcaster CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/georgian-public-broadcaster
- Georgian Public Broadcaster Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/geomaetel1780527547-maestro-imedi-tv-georgian-government-cyber-attack-october-2019/
- Georgian Public Broadcaster CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/georgian-public-broadcaster/history
- Georgian Public Broadcaster CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50207192
- 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