Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (LAS1770196017)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of LastPass'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 LastPass 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 LastPass breach identified under incident ID LAS1770196017.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of LastPass's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lastpass, the number of followers: 42443, the industry type: Computer and Network Security and the number of employees: 713 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 700 and after the incident was 564 with a difference of -136 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 LastPass and their customers.
LastPass recently reported "LastPass 2022 Data Breach Settlement", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
LastPass, a leading password-security provider, has received preliminary approval from a U.S.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Encrypted password vaults, personal information, plus an estimated financial loss of $24.5 million settlement.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how Settlement approved, teams are taking away lessons such as Growing financial and reputational risks companies face following major cybersecurity incidents, particularly those involving sensitive financial or personal data.
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 Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating theft of cryptocurrency from affected accounts and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating breach exposed the personal information of millions of users. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Credentials from Password Stores (T1555) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating encrypted password vaults compromised and OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating personal information of millions of users exposed. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating encrypted password vaults, personal information compromised. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating data breach led to the theft of cryptocurrency from affected accounts and Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating personal information of millions of users exposed. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating encrypted password vaults compromised and Financial Theft (T1657) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating theft of cryptocurrency from affected accounts. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- LastPass Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/lastpass/incident/LAS1770196017
- LastPass CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/lastpass
- LastPass Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/las1770196017-lastpass-breach-january-2022/
- LastPass CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/lastpass/history
- LastPass CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/lastpass-gets-initial-nod-for-24-5-million-data-breach-deal
- 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