Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (NELGRALOS1782412398)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Los Alamos Public Schools'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 Los Alamos Public Schools 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 Los Alamos Public Schools breach identified under incident ID NELGRALOS1782412398.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Los Alamos Public Schools's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/los-alamos-public-schools, the number of followers: 633, the industry type: Primary and Secondary Education and the number of employees: 414 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 775 and after the incident was 628 with a difference of -147 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 Los Alamos Public Schools and their customers.
On 27 November 2024, Grandview School District disclosed Data Breach, Ransomware issues under the banner "Grandview School District 2024 Data Breach".
Grandview School District in Washington disclosed a September 2024 data breach affecting 9,414 individuals, exposing sensitive personal information, including names, Social Security numbers, student ID numbers, financial account details, health-related data, state-issued IDs,...
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Internal servers, phone and internet services, and exposing 9,414 records, with nearly 9,414 records at risk.
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Delayed notification (21 months after detection).
The case underscores how Ongoing, and recommending next steps like Improve incident response timelines, enhance monitoring for unauthorized access, and consider proactive ransomware defenses, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering 12 months of free credit monitoring offered to affected individuals aged 18+ (enrollment open for 90 days).
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 unauthorized access to its systems between September 28 and October 8, 2024 and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating internal server disruption; attack vector undisclosed. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware group BlackSuit claimed responsibility for the attack. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating social Security numbers, financial account details exposed. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating names, SSNs, student IDs, health data compromised and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating employee and student files stolen (claimed by BlackSuit). Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating blackSuit claimed data exfiltration; 9,414 records exposed. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack disrupted phone and internet services and Defacement (T1491) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating blackSuit claimed responsibility; extortion for data leaks. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating delayed detection (21 months); attack details undisclosed and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating internal server disruption; phone/internet services affected. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Los Alamos Public Schools Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/los-alamos-public-schools/incident/NELGRALOS1782412398
- Los Alamos Public Schools CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/los-alamos-public-schools
- Los Alamos Public Schools Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/nelgralos1782412398-grandview-school-district-alamo-heights-isd-nelson-university-ransomware-september-2024/
- Los Alamos Public Schools CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/los-alamos-public-schools/history
- Los Alamos Public Schools CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.comparitech.com/news/grandview-school-district-warns-9000-people-of-data-breach-21-months-later/
- 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