Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (INS1787955989)

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the Insee breach identified under incident ID INS1787955989.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Insee's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/insee, the number of followers: 84378, the industry type: Government Administration and the number of employees: 2925 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 772 and after the incident was 746 with a difference of -26 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 Insee and their customers.

Académie de Toulouse recently reported "Cyberattaque contre l’Éducation nationale : deux académies toujours paralysées à la veille de la rentrée", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.

Le ministère de l’Éducation nationale a confirmé une cyberattaque ayant perturbé plusieurs académies françaises, avec des répercussions majeures à quelques jours de la rentrée scolaire.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting messageries professionnelles, environnements numériques de travail (ENT) and applications métiers, and exposing Les données d’un grand nombre d’agents et d’élèves pourraient avoir été exposées.

In response, teams activated the incident response plan, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Réinitialisation complète des identifiants et mots de passe, coupure des accès non autorisés, and began remediation that includes Opérations de sécurisation en cours.

The case underscores how En cours, teams are taking away lessons such as Lacunes structurelles en cybersécurité au sein des administrations, notamment liées à des systèmes obsolètes et à l’absence d’authentification multifactorielle, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Familles et enseignants informés des perturbations et des mesures alternatives (distribution papier des emplois du temps).

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.