Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (INSPAR1778272297)

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the Instructure breach identified under incident ID INSPAR1778272297.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Instructure's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/instructure-inc-, the number of followers: 79694, the industry type: E-Learning Providers and the number of employees: 2172 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 111 and after the incident was 100 with a difference of -11 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 Instructure and their customers.

On 09 May 2024, University of Minnesota disclosed Ransomware issues under the banner "Cyberattack on Canvas Platform Threatens Data of Millions of Students Nationwide".

The University of Minnesota (U of M) and nearly 8,000 other schools across the U.S.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Canvas platform, Parchment transcript ordering service, and exposing Personal data of up to 270 million users, with nearly Up to 270 million users records at risk.

In response, teams activated the incident response plan, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Temporarily shut down the Canvas platform, applied security patches, and began remediation that includes Applied security patches, and stakeholders are being briefed through Issued alerts to students and parents, confirmed outage on website.

The case underscores how Ongoing, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Alerts issued to students and parents.

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.