Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (ZCAMIRGOOSOLCISTHE1780914449)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Mirasvit's Vulnerability 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 Mirasvit 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 Mirasvit breach identified under incident ID ZCAMIRGOOSOLCISTHE1780914449.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Mirasvit's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mirasvit, the number of followers: 868, the industry type: IT Services and IT Consulting and the number of employees: 21 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 745 with a difference of -5 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 Mirasvit and their customers.
DentaQuest recently reported "Cybersecurity Roundup: Critical Flaws, Espionage Campaigns, and Major Breaches", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
Recent weeks have seen a surge in high-profile cybersecurity incidents, from long-standing vulnerabilities to sophisticated espionage operations and large-scale data breaches.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Android, Linux Kernel and SolarWinds Serv-U, and exposing 2.6 million individuals' data (DentaQuest) and 20,000 Instagram accounts, with nearly ['2.6 million (DentaQuest)', '20,000 (Instagram)'] records at risk.
In response, and began remediation that includes Patches for vulnerabilities and Disruption of botnet infrastructure.
Overall, the incident is a reminder of why proactive monitoring and strong governance matter.
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 high confidence (90%), with evidence including mirasvit Full Page Cache Warmer flaw actively exploited, and cisco Unified CM bug with public exploit code, Supply Chain Compromise (T1195) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating solarWinds Serv-U flaw adds to supply chain attack history, Phishing (T1566) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating stock exchange executive’s Outlook account breached via phishing, and Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating winRAR vulnerability exploited in spy campaign. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating winRAR vulnerability exploited in modular spy campaign and User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating malware infection of officials’ phones via malicious files. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Server Software Component: Web Shell (T1505.003) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating mirasvit and SolarWinds flaws may enable web shell deployment. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating linux Kernel vulnerabilities pose risks to enterprise systems. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Hide Artifacts: Hidden Files and Directories (T1564.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating zcash privacy layer vulnerability raises undetected exploitation concerns, Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating outlook account breach via phishing implies valid account abuse, and Dynamic Resolution: Domain Generation Algorithms (T1568.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating silent Ransom Group shifted to DNS fast flux infrastructure. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force (T1110) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating meta AI recovery tool flaw compromised 20,000 Instagram accounts and Adversary-in-the-Middle (T1557) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating phishing attacks on high-value targets (Outlook breach). Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Account Discovery (T1087) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating espionage campaigns targeting Ukrainian entities and officials. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating dentaQuest breach exposed 2.6 million individuals PII and Email Collection (T1114) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating outlook account breach of stock exchange executive. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Application Layer Protocol: DNS (T1071.004) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating silent Ransom Group uses DNS fast flux infrastructure and Dynamic Resolution (T1568) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating dNS fast flux complicates detection and attribution. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including shinyHunters leaked 2.6M DentaQuest records, and silent Ransom Group data exfiltration and Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol (T1048) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration via malware (e.g., officials’ phones). Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating ioT botnet C0XMO evolved with competitor-killing capabilities and Defacement (T1491) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating potential defacement via supply chain attacks (e.g., SolarWinds). These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Mirasvit Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/mirasvit/incident/ZCAMIRGOOSOLCISTHE1780914449
- Mirasvit CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/mirasvit
- Mirasvit Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/zcamirgoosolcisthe1780914449-google-solarwinds-linux-mirasvit-cisco-zcash-vulnerability-january-2024/
- Mirasvit CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/mirasvit/history
- Mirasvit CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://securityaffairs.com/193274/data-breach/dentaquest-breach-shinyhunters-publish-data-impacting-2-6m-people.html/attachment/image-1418
- 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