Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (ISLMEDRIV1781270544)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of ISLAND's Ransomware 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 ISLAND 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 ISLAND breach identified under incident ID ISLMEDRIV1781270544.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of ISLAND's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/islandco, the number of followers: 2114, the industry type: Manufacturing and the number of employees: 45 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 759 and after the incident was 656 with a difference of -103 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 ISLAND and their customers.
Carisbrooke College recently reported "Isle of Wight Schools Ransomware Attack", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
Six schools on the Isle of Wight were affected by a ransomware attack that encrypted their data and disrupted IT systems.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting IT systems, and exposing encrypted.
In response, and began remediation that includes efforts to restore systems.
The case underscores how ongoing, teams are taking away lessons such as plans to strengthen security measures moving forward.
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%), with evidence including disrupted IT systems, and attack threatening the organizations existence and External Remote Services (T1133) with lower confidence (40%), with evidence including iT systems disrupted, and no specific attack vector mentioned. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating headteacher attributed disruption to a malware incident. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack that encrypted their data. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate confidence (50%), with evidence including malware incident, and no details on malware’s origin or extent. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with lower confidence (40%), with evidence including data encryption, and no confirmation of data exfiltration. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- ISLAND Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/islandco/incident/ISLMEDRIV1781270544
- ISLAND CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/islandco
- ISLAND Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/islmedriv1781270544-barton-primary-medina-college-island-6th-form-ransomware-august-2021/
- ISLAND CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/islandco/history
- ISLAND CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-58078670
- 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