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Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (TELIRI1767930667)

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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis

Rankiteo Incident Impact-10
Company Score Before Incident843 / 1000
Company Score After Incident833 / 1000
Company LinkView IRIB Profile
INCIDENT NUMBERTELIRI1767930667
Type of Cyber IncidentCyber Attack
ATTACK VECTORWeb Stream Exploitation
DATA EXPOSEDNA
INCIDENT DATE31/01/2022
STATUSpublished

Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis

  • Timeline of IRIB'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 IRIB 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 IRIB breach identified under incident ID TELIRI1767930667.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of IRIB's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/irib, the number of followers: 0, the industry type: Media Production and the number of employees: 3856 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 843 and after the incident was 833 with a difference of -10 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 IRIB and their customers.

On 01 February 2022, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) disclosed Stream Hijacking issues under the banner "Hijacking of IRIB's Telewebion Web Stream by Adalat Ali Hacktivist Group".

A hacktivist group known as Adalat Ali (Ali's Justice) hijacked the web stream of Iran's state-owned television station, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), to broadcast an anti-regime message during a live soccer match.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Telewebion (IRIB's web-based TV and radio streaming platform).

In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Regained control over the platform, and stakeholders are being briefed through Acknowledged the incident via tweet.

Overall, the incident is a reminder of why proactive monitoring and strong governance matter.

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 to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating hijacked the live web stream of Iran’s state-owned broadcaster and External Remote Services (T1133) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating telewebion, IRIB’s online streaming platform, targeted during live broadcast. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Service Stop (T1489) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating replaced the feed with a 50-second video...repeated intermittently for hours and Defacement: Internal Defacement (T1491.001) with high confidence (95%), supported by evidence indicating hijacked the web stream...to air an anti-government message. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Hide Artifacts: Hidden Window (T1564.003) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating intrusion lasted only 10 seconds in prior attack. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.

Initial Access
Exploit Public-Facing Application (80%)
External Remote Services (70%)
Impact
Service Stop (90%)
Defacement: Internal Defacement (95%)
Defense Evasion
Hide Artifacts: Hidden Window (60%)

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