Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (NSW1769571644)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of NSW Police Force'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 NSW Police Force 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 NSW Police Force breach identified under incident ID NSW1769571644.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of NSW Police Force's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nsw-police-force, the number of followers: 68280, the industry type: Law Enforcement and the number of employees: 3631 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 772 and after the incident was 695 with a difference of -77 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 NSW Police Force and their customers.
NSW Police recently reported "NSW Police Leak Exposes Email Addresses of 150 Complainants in Data Breach", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
The NSW Police inadvertently disclosed the email addresses of over 150 individuals who filed complaints regarding officers’ use of force during the Sydney Black Lives Matter protest on 6 June.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Email addresses of 150 complainants, with nearly 150 records at risk.
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Acknowledged as an 'administrative mistake'.
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 User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with lower confidence (0%). Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating email addresses of 150 complainants were included in an attachment. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol (T1048) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating email sent with attached list of all recipients’ emails to unintended parties. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (0%) and Data Manipulation: Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating disclosure of complainants’ identities violates Section 169A of the Police Act 1990. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials: Credentials In Files (T1552.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating email addresses exposed in an attachment, potentially usable for further targeting. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating administrative mistake suggests lack of proper safeguards or oversight. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- NSW Police Force Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/nsw-police-force/incident/NSW1769571644
- NSW Police Force CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/nsw-police-force
- NSW Police Force Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/nsw1769571644-nsw-police-breach-june-2024/
- NSW Police Force CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/nsw-police-force/history
- NSW Police Force CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=a8e935a9-c7f4-4c84-983e-9d33caab6eae
- 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