Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (DARHARPRICOLCLE1767881845)

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the Princeton University breach identified under incident ID DARHARPRICOLCLE1767881845.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Princeton University's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/princeton-university, the number of followers: 360845, the industry type: Higher Education and the number of employees: 11248 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 608 and after the incident was 555 with a difference of -53 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 Princeton University and their customers.

University of Pennsylvania recently reported "Multiple University Data Breaches Due to Social Engineering Attacks", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.

In the past two months, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and Princeton University have fallen victim to data breaches attributed to social engineering attacks, specifically phone-based phishing.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Internal university systems, and exposing Personal data of students, faculty, and staff.

In response, teams activated the incident response plan, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Removed hackers' access to internal systems, and began remediation that includes Stepped up security protocols, and stakeholders are being briefed through Public statements to stakeholders.

The case underscores how Ongoing, teams are taking away lessons such as Universities are highly vulnerable to cyberattacks due to decentralized IT structures, lack of centralized control, and human error. Cybersecurity training and awareness are critical but not sufficient alone. There is a need for better collaboration between IT departments and faculty to balance security with academic freedom, and recommending next steps like Implement more centralized IT control to reduce vulnerabilities from decentralized departments, Enhance cybersecurity training and awareness programs, focusing on non-punitive approaches and Limit data retention to reduce the risk of exposure (e.g., avoid storing unnecessary sensitive data like Social Security numbers), with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Universities have issued public statements to stakeholders about the breaches and steps taken to mitigate risks.

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.