Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (FBINCA1786544643)
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Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of NCAA'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 NCAA 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 NCAA breach identified under incident ID FBINCA1786544643.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of NCAA's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ncaa, the number of followers: 289077, the industry type: Higher Education and the number of employees: 13242 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 799 and after the incident was 766 with a difference of -33 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 NCAA and their customers.
A newly reported cybersecurity incident, "FBI Warns of Rising Sextortion Schemes Targeting Social Media Accounts", has drawn attention.
The FBI has issued a public alert warning that cybercriminals are increasingly targeting adults and children by hijacking social media and online accounts to steal sexually explicit images or videos.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Social media accounts and Online accounts, and exposing Sexually explicit images/videos and Personal details (names, birthdates, social media handles), plus an estimated financial loss of Financial demands met by victims.
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Public alert issued by FBI.
The case underscores how Ongoing, and recommending next steps like Avoid storing explicit content on accessible platforms, Use strong, non-personal information-based passwords and Do not engage with unsolicited messages requesting verification codes, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering FBI and NCAA joint alert for student-athletes.
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 Phishing: Spearphishing Link (T1566.001) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including malicious password reset links, and trick victims into providing verification codes and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (80%), with evidence including account takeover via verification code theft, and hijacking social media and online accounts. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials: Credentials In Files (T1552.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), with evidence including weak passwords, and personal information-based passwords and Brute Force: Password Guessing (T1110.001) with moderate confidence (60%), with evidence including weak passwords, and lack of multi-factor authentication. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including steal sexually explicit images or videos, and stolen content for blackmail and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating hijacking social media and online accounts to steal content. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), with evidence including material is sold on criminal marketplaces, and data exfiltration and Exfiltration Over Web Service: Exfiltration to Cloud Storage (T1567.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating stolen content...sold on criminal marketplaces. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Defacement: Internal Defacement (T1491.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized posting of stolen content on victims’ own social media profiles and Search Open Websites/Domains: Social Media (T1593.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating threatening to leak it publicly or share it with victims’ contacts. Under the Reconnaissance tactic, the analysis identified Search Open Websites/Domains: Social Media (T1593.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating personal details...used to coerce further exploitation. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- NCAA Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/ncaa/incident/FBINCA1786544643
- NCAA CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/ncaa
- NCAA Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/fbinca1786544643-fbi-ncaa-cyber-attack-september-2021/
- NCAA CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/ncaa/history
- NCAA CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-warns-of-hackers-targeting-online-accounts-to-steal-explicit-photos/
- 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