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Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (IMP1776537721)

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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis

Rankiteo Incident Impact-72
Company Score Before Incident749 / 1000
Company Score After Incident677 / 1000
Company LinkView Impac Mortgage Corp. Profile
INCIDENT NUMBERIMP1776537721
Type of Cyber IncidentBreach
ATTACK VECTORNA
DATA EXPOSEDNames and Social Security numbers
INCIDENT DATE20/02/2024
STATUSUnder investigation

Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis

  • Timeline of Impac Mortgage Corp.'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 Impac Mortgage Corp. 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 Impac Mortgage Corp. breach identified under incident ID IMP1776537721.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Impac Mortgage Corp.'s information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/impacmortgage, the number of followers: 7478, the industry type: Financial Services and the number of employees: 387 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 749 and after the incident was 677 with a difference of -72 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 Impac Mortgage Corp. and their customers.

On 27 March 2024, Impac Mortgage Holdings, Inc. disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Impac Mortgage Holdings Data Breach Exposes Sensitive Customer Information".

Impac Mortgage Holdings, Inc., a California-based financial services company specializing in residential mortgage lending, is under investigation following a data breach that exposed sensitive personal information.

The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Names and Social Security numbers.

In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Written notice to impacted parties.

The case underscores how Under investigation, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Written notice sent to impacted parties on March 27, 2024.

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 unauthorized access to company systems between February 21 and March 20, 2024 and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to company systems (no specific vector mentioned). Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials (T1552) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating access to files containing names and Social Security numbers and OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to sensitive PII (implies credential compromise). Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating files containing names and Social Security numbers accessed. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data breach exposing sensitive customer information (PII) and Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating no details on exfiltration method, but PII was accessed. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating no evidence of data destruction, but breach occurred and Data Manipulation: Transmitted Data Manipulation (T1565.002) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating potential identity theft risk due to exposed PII. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.

Initial Access
Valid Accounts (70%)
Exploit Public-Facing Application (50%)
Credential Access
Unsecured Credentials (60%)
OS Credential Dumping (50%)
Collection
Data from Local System (80%)
Exfiltration
Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (70%)
Transfer Data to Cloud Account (40%)
Impact
Data Destruction (30%)
Data Manipulation: Transmitted Data Manipulation (40%)

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