Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (INT1773650069)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of INTERPOL'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 INTERPOL 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 INTERPOL breach identified under incident ID INT1773650069.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of INTERPOL's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/interpol, the number of followers: 568557, the industry type: Law Enforcement and the number of employees: 2306 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 781 and after the incident was 757 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 INTERPOL and their customers.
Government institutions recently reported "Interpol-Led Operation Synergia III Disrupts Global Cybercrime Network", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
In a major international crackdown, Interpol’s Operation Synergia III has dismantled a vast cybercriminal infrastructure, resulting in the seizure of over 45,000 malicious IP addresses and the arrest of 94 suspects across multiple countries.
Impact assessments are still underway, so the full scope is not yet clear.
In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Seizure of 45,000 malicious IP addresses, and began remediation that includes Dismantling of AVrecon botnet and socksEscort proxy service.
The case underscores how Ongoing, teams are taking away lessons such as The operation highlights the growing threat posed by proxy services and botnets in enabling cybercriminal activity, as well as the need for continued vigilance in tracking and neutralizing such networks.
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 moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating aVrecon botnet infected thousands of devices worldwide and User Execution: Malicious Link (T1204.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating botnet facilitated large-scale cyberattacks, fraud, and data theft. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating aVrecon botnet...turning them into unwitting nodes for criminal operations and System Services: Service Execution (T1569.002) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating botnet active since at least 2021, infecting devices. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Create or Modify System Process: Windows Service (T1543.003) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating aVrecon botnet infected thousands of devices worldwide. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Proxy: Multi-hop Proxy (T1090.003) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating socksEscort proxy service...used to obscure their identities and Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information (T1140) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating botnet facilitated large-scale cyberattacks, fraud, and data theft. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Adversary-in-the-Middle: LLMNR/NBT-NS Poisoning and SMB Relay (T1557.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating credential theft...enabled by AVrecon botnet and Brute Force: Password Guessing (T1110.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating botnet facilitated...credential theft. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Account Discovery: Local Account (T1087.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating botnet facilitated large-scale cyberattacks, fraud, and data theft. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating type of data compromised such as credentials, personal data, financial information. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Proxy: Multi-hop Proxy (T1090.003) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating socksEscort proxy service...used by threat actors to obscure identities and Application Layer Protocol: Web Protocols (T1071.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating botnet facilitated large-scale cyberattacks, fraud, and data theft. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration such as Yes,personally identifiable information such as Yes and Exfiltration Over Web Service: Exfiltration to Cloud Storage (T1567.002) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating botnet facilitated data theft. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware campaigns...enabled by AVrecon botnet and Defacement: Internal Defacement (T1491.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating botnet facilitated large-scale cyberattacks. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- INTERPOL Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/interpol/incident/INT1773650069
- INTERPOL CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/interpol
- INTERPOL Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/int1773650069-interpol-cyber-attack-january-2024/
- INTERPOL CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/interpol/history
- INTERPOL CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://securityaffairs.com/189467/cyber-crime/payload-ransomware-claims-the-hack-of-royal-bahrain-hospital.html/attachment/image-1169
- 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