Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (INT1791498424)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Integrity360'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 Integrity360 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 Integrity360 breach identified under incident ID INT1791498424.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Integrity360's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/integrity360, the number of followers: 31831, the industry type: IT Services and IT Consulting and the number of employees: 458 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 754 and after the incident was 736 with a difference of -18 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 Integrity360 and their customers.
Two Taiwanese universities (August 2022 and March 2023 breaches) recently reported "FBI Seizes Domains Linked to Chinese State-Sponsored Hacking Group Flax Typhoon", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
The FBI has seized seven domains tied to Flax Typhoon, a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group, disrupting two hacking tools MicroScan and FishHub used in cyberattacks against critical infrastructure and organizations worldwide.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Critical infrastructure, Government agencies and Universities, and exposing Stolen files from over 20 organizations, including personally identifiable information, with nearly Files from over 20 organizations records at risk.
In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Domain seizures, disruption of hacking tools (MicroScan and FishHub), and stakeholders are being briefed through Joint cybersecurity advisory issued.
The case underscores how Ongoing, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Joint cybersecurity advisory detailing Flax Typhoon’s tactics.
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%), supported by evidence indicating exploited eight known vulnerabilities, including CVE-2015-3306, CVE-2019-11510, Spear-Phishing Link (T1566.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating fishHub facilitated spear-phishing attacks and malware delivery, and External Remote Services (T1133) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating used SoftEther VPN to maintain persistence. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating microScan used 1,300 penetration-testing scripts for vulnerability exploitation and User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating fishHub facilitated malware delivery for remote access. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified External Remote Services (T1133) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating softEther VPN used to maintain persistence on victim networks. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating exploited vulnerabilities like CVE-2021-22205 (GitLab) for access. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating used password-spraying attacks on Microsoft Exchange servers and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating state-sponsored group likely evaded detection during long-term access. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force: Password Spraying (T1110.003) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating used EBurst tool for password-spraying attacks on Microsoft Exchange. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Network Service Discovery (T1046) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating microScan scanned for vulnerabilities in Oracle WebLogic, Apache Struts, etc.. Under the Lateral Movement tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation of Remote Services (T1210) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating breached networks via exploited vulnerabilities for lateral movement. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating stolen files from over 20 organizations found on FishHub server. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Application Layer Protocol: Web Protocols (T1071.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating domains like outlook3650.com, linkedinns.net used for C2 and Proxy: Multi-hop Proxy (T1090.003) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating softEther VPN likely used for anonymized C2 traffic. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating fishHub granted remote access for data exfiltration. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Endpoint Denial of Service: Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating targeted critical infrastructure for potential disruption. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Integrity360 Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/integrity360/incident/INT1791498424
- Integrity360 CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/integrity360
- Integrity360 Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/int1791498424-integrity-technology-group-cyber-attack-september-2026/
- Integrity360 CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/integrity360/history
- Integrity360 CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-disrupts-chinese-hacking-tools-used-to-breach-critical-infrastructure/
- 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