Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (LABQUE1780590997)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings'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 Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings 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 Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings breach identified under incident ID LABQUE1780590997.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/laboratory-corporation-of-america-holdings, the number of followers: 110, the industry type: Medical Practices and the number of employees: 25 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 756 and after the incident was 599 with a difference of -157 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 Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings and their customers.
Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (Labcorp) recently reported "Labcorp AMCA Data Breach Settlement", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (Labcorp) agreed to a $35 million class action settlement to resolve claims stemming from a 2018–2019 cybersecurity incident involving its third-party billing vendor, American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA).
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Personal and health information of patients, plus an estimated financial loss of $35,000,000 (settlement amount).
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Public disclosure and settlement announcement.
The case underscores how Settled, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Compensation and medical monitoring offered 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 Supply Chain Compromise (T1195) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating cybersecurity incident involving its third-party billing vendor, AMCA and Trusted Relationship (T1199) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating labcorp transmitted to AMCA between August 2018 and March 2019. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Steal Application Access Token (T1528) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating personal and health information of patients...exposed via third-party vendor. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating personal and health information of patients compromised. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating breach exposed the personal and health information of patients and Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating third-party billing vendor (AMCA) systems were breached. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating identity theft, medical fraud, credit monitoring expenses and Defacement (T1491) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating brand reputation impact such as Yes. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/laboratory-corporation-of-america-holdings/incident/LABQUE1780590997
- Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/laboratory-corporation-of-america-holdings
- Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/labque1780590997-laboratory-corporation-of-america-holdings-quest-diagnostics-breach-august-2018/
- Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/laboratory-corporation-of-america-holdings/history
- Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.claimdepot.com/settlements/amca-data-breach-settlement-83395
- 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