Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (NIN1781958454)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Nintendo's Breach 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 Nintendo 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 Nintendo breach identified under incident ID NIN1781958454.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Nintendo's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nintendo-us, the number of followers: 645, the industry type: Mobile Gaming Apps and the number of employees: 4 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 749 and after the incident was 685 with a difference of -64 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 Nintendo and their customers.
Nintendo of America recently reported "Nintendo of America Third-Party Breach via TinyPulse", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
A hacking group known as Shadowbyt3$ breached Nintendo of America by exploiting TinyPulse, a third-party survey platform, and stole nearly 1GB of employee data.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting TinyPulse (third-party platform), and exposing 1GB of employee data.
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Public statement to BleepingComputer.
The case underscores how Ongoing, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Nintendo confirmed no customer or financial data was compromised.
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 Supply Chain Compromise (T1195) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating breached Nintendo of America by exploiting TinyPulse, a third-party survey platform and Compromise Software Supply Chain (T1195.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating third-party survey platform (TinyPulse) exploited to access employee data. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Steal Application Access Token (T1528) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating employee direct messages and survey analytics accessed via third-party platform and Account Discovery (T1087) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating names, email addresses, employee IDs compromised. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating 1GB of employee data stolen, including bank statements, W-9 forms and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating survey analytics and employee direct messages exfiltrated from TinyPulse. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating threatened to leak 1GB of stolen data within 48 hours if ransom unpaid and Exfiltration Over Web Service (T1567) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating dataset allegedly containing employee direct messages released. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating ransom demand of $2 million suggests potential encryption threat and Defacement (T1491) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating threatened to leak files if negotiations failed. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Nintendo Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/nintendo-us/incident/NIN1781958454
- Nintendo CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/nintendo-us
- Nintendo Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/nin1781958454-nintendo-of-america-breach-january-2016/
- Nintendo CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/nintendo-us/history
- Nintendo CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/nintendo-confirms-data-stolen-via-third-party-cyberattack-but-sadly-no-big-secrets-were-revealed
- 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