Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (MOD1779345048)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Moderna's Cyber Attack 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 Moderna 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 Moderna breach identified under incident ID MOD1779345048.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Moderna's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/modernatx, the number of followers: 747362, the industry type: Biotechnology Research and the number of employees: 6394 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 766 and after the incident was 748 with a difference of -18 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 Moderna and their customers.
On 04 May 2024, West Pharmaceutical Services disclosed Ransomware issues under the banner "West Pharmaceutical Services Hit by Ransomware Attack".
West Pharmaceutical Services, a key supplier of injectable drug packaging and delivery systems, disclosed a ransomware attack on 4 May that forced the company to shut down portions of its global infrastructure.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Domain-joined devices, global manufacturing and supply chain infrastructure, and exposing Proprietary packaging designs, shipping data.
In response, teams activated the incident response plan, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Shutdown of global infrastructure, securing accounts, addressing indicators of compromise, and began remediation that includes Restoration of core enterprise systems, forensic investigation, while recovery efforts such as Progressive resumption of critical processes at some sites continue, and stakeholders are being briefed through Ongoing updates to stakeholders.
The case underscores how Ongoing, teams are taking away lessons such as Perimeter defense alone is insufficient against modern ransomware threats. Organizations in critical supply chains must adopt blast radius reduction, validated recovery capabilities, proactive threat hunting, strict OT-IT segmentation, and immutable backups, and recommending next steps like Adopt blast radius reduction strategies, Implement validated recovery capabilities and Proactive threat hunting, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Ongoing updates as investigation progresses.
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 lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating forced the company to shut down portions of its global infrastructure and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating affected domain-joined devices within West’s network. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Ransomware attack disclosed (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack on 4 May that forced shutdown. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating accounts have been secured post-incident. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating domain-joined devices affected. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating no evidence of persistent malicious activity found and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating shutdown of global infrastructure to prevent further damage. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating domain-joined devices affected. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified File and Directory Discovery (T1083) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating proprietary packaging designs and shipping data compromised. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration involved proprietary packaging designs. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating breach involved data exfiltration and system encryption. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating system encryption disrupted manufacturing operations, Defacement: Internal Defacement (T1491.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating global shutdown to prevent further damage, and Endpoint Denial of Service: Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating disrupted approximately 70% of the world’s injectable drug supply chain. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Moderna Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/modernatx/incident/MOD1779345048
- Moderna CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/modernatx
- Moderna Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/mod1779345048-moderna-cyber-attack-may-2026/
- Moderna CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/modernatx/history
- Moderna CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://informationsecuritybuzz.com/cyberattack-on-west-pharmaceutical-halts-manufacturing/
- 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