Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (GERMINGOVMOFMZVFRE1783946090)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania'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 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania 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 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania breach identified under incident ID GERMINGOVMOFMZVFRE1783946090.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mofaro, the number of followers: 6188, the industry type: International Affairs and the number of employees: 354 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 752 and after the incident was 735 with a difference of -17 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 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania and their customers.
Poland recently reported "EU and UK Impose Sanctions on Russia Over Cyberattacks Targeting Europe", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
The European Union and the United Kingdom announced coordinated sanctions against Russia, holding Moscow’s FSB intelligence agency responsible for a series of cyberattacks across Europe.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting power grid, government ministries and rail infrastructure.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
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 moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating cyberattacks targeting Europe...including rail infrastructure and Supply Chain Compromise (T1195) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating critical infrastructure...power grid targeted. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating malware deployed for espionage and sabotage. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating fSB Centre 16...collaborating with cybercriminals. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating targeted government ministries and critical services. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Masquerading (T1036) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating cybercriminals allegedly collaborating with the state and Hide Artifacts (T1564) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating malware deployed for espionage and sabotage worldwide. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force (T1110) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating targeted government ministries and critical infrastructure and Unsecured Credentials (T1552) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating fSB Centre 16...deploying malware for espionage. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified File and Directory Discovery (T1083) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating espionage and sabotage operations targeting Europe. Under the Lateral Movement tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation of Remote Services (T1210) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating power grid and rail infrastructure targeted. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Endpoint Denial of Service (T1499) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating could have left 500,000 people without electricity and Data Manipulation (T1565) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating disruptions to rail infrastructure and key services. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/mofaro/incident/GERMINGOVMOFMZVFRE1783946090
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/mofaro
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/germingovmofmzvfre1783946090-netherlands-government-french-rail-infrastructure-german-government-slovakian-government-romanian-government-finnish-government-cyber-attack-january-2022/
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/mofaro/history
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://thewhistler.ng/eu-uk-hit-russia-with-joint-cyber-sanctions/
- 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