Ladies' College Colombo Sri Lanka Breach Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (LAD1765094804)

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the Ladies' College Colombo Sri Lanka breach identified under incident ID LAD1765094804.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Ladies' College Colombo Sri Lanka's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ladies-college-colombo-sri-lanka, the number of followers: 219, the industry type: Primary and Secondary Education and the number of employees: 9 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 769 and after the incident was 646 with a difference of -123 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 Ladies' College Colombo Sri Lanka and their customers.

The Ladies College recently reported "Data Breach at The Ladies College", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.

The Ladies College improved its security measures after a data breach affecting the school’s servers in 2024.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting On-site servers, and exposing Limited data encrypted.

In response, and began remediation that includes Improved security measures, secured administrator accounts, implemented Multi-Factor Authentication, secured remote access, while recovery efforts such as Data recovered continue, and stakeholders are being briefed through Self-reported to the Office of the Data Protection Authority.

The case underscores how Completed, teams are taking away lessons such as Effective processes to monitor and warn against security breaches are critical. Weak passwords and lack of Multi-Factor Authentication increase vulnerability. Remote access must be secured, and recommending next steps like Implement Multi-Factor Authentication, use strong passwords, secure remote access, monitor suspicious authentication activity, and establish processes to detect and respond to security breaches.

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.

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 External Remote Services (T1133) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including exposed remote access, and attack vector such as Remote access and Valid Accounts (T1078) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including weak administrator password, and unauthorised access to servers. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force: Password Guessing (T1110.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating weak administrator password and Valid Accounts: Default Accounts (T1078.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating lack of Multi-Factor Authentication for administrator account. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (95%), with evidence including limited data encrypted by hackers, and type such as Ransomware. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating did not implement processes to monitor suspicious authentication activity. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.