Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (KYB1781209807)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of KYB Corporation's Breach 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 KYB Corporation 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 KYB Corporation breach identified under incident ID KYB1781209807.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of KYB Corporation's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kyb-corporation, the number of followers: 10887, the industry type: Motor Vehicle Manufacturing and the number of employees: 624 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 750 and after the incident was 664 with a difference of -86 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 KYB Corporation and their customers.
On 01 February 2025, KYB Americas Corp. disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "KYB Americas Data Breach Settlement".
In February 2025, KYB Americas Corp.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Personal information of U.S. residents, plus an estimated financial loss of $250,000 (settlement fund cap).
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Breach notifications and settlement offer.
The case underscores how Settled, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Breach notification and settlement details provided to affected individuals.
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 targeted cyberattack that compromised the personal information and Trusted Relationship (T1199) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating kYB Americas Corp. experienced a targeted cyberattack. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials (T1552) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating personal information of U.S. residents compromised and OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating high (personally identifiable information). Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating personal information of U.S. residents compromised. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data breach impacting U.S. residents who received a breach notification and Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating compensation for identity theft or fraud tied to the breach. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating targeted cyberattack that compromised personal information and Defacement (T1491) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating kYB denies wrongdoing but settled to resolve the lawsuit. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- KYB Corporation Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/kyb-corporation/incident/KYB1781209807
- KYB Corporation CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/kyb-corporation
- KYB Corporation Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/kyb1781209807-kyb-americas-corp-breach-february-2025/
- KYB Corporation CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/kyb-corporation/history
- KYB Corporation CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.claimdepot.com/settlements/kyb-data-settlement
- 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