Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (UNDRES1768882773)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Resecurity'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 Resecurity 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 Resecurity breach identified under incident ID UNDRES1768882773.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Resecurity's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/resecurity, the number of followers: 89527, the industry type: Defense and Space Manufacturing and the number of employees: 99 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 748 and after the incident was 663 with a difference of -85 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 Resecurity and their customers.
On 09 January 2024, BreachForums disclosed Data Leak issues under the banner "BreachForums Data Leak Exposes 324K Cybercriminals in Dramatic Retaliation".
An individual using the alias 'James' published a massive database containing the real identities and details of 323,986 BreachForums users, including administrators, moderators, and members of the notorious hacking community.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting BreachForums user database, and exposing Usernames, email addresses, IP addresses, registration details, with nearly 323,986 records at risk.
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Manifesto published by 'James' explaining motives.
The case underscores how Ongoing (law enforcement likely investigating exposed individuals), teams are taking away lessons such as Cybercriminal anonymity is fragile and can be compromised by insider threats or retaliatory actions. Law enforcement can leverage exposed data to disrupt operations, even if the data is reused across platforms, and recommending next steps like Cybercriminal forums should enhance security measures to prevent insider leaks, Law enforcement should prioritize analyzing exposed data to identify and apprehend high-value targets and Organizations should monitor dark web activity for potential threats stemming from exposed cybercriminals, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Cybersecurity firms and law enforcement agencies should treat the exposed data as a valuable resource for identifying and disrupting cybercriminal operations.
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 Gather Victim Identity Information: Email Addresses (T1589.002) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating leaked data included usernames, email addresses, IP addresses and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating james was a former associate of BreachForums and ShinyHunters. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Gather Victim Identity Information: Credentials (T1589.001) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating registration details, usernames, and email addresses exposed and OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating massive database containing real identities and details published. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating breachForums user database compromised, including 323,986 users and Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating real identities, IP addresses, and registration details collected. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating james published a massive database containing user details and Exfiltration Over Web Service: Exfiltration to Cloud Storage (T1567.002) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating data leak framed as an act of retribution, publicly disclosed. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating leak is expected to disrupt cybercriminal operations and Disk Wipe: Disk Content Wipe (T1561.002) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating stripping away anonymity, a cornerstone of cybercriminal groups. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts: Cloud Accounts (T1078.004) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating some members used anonymous email services like Gmail and Hide Artifacts: Hidden Files and Directories (T1564.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating cybercriminals rely on anonymity to evade law enforcement. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Resecurity Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/resecurity/incident/UNDRES1768882773
- Resecurity CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/resecurity
- Resecurity Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/undres1768882773-breachforums-shinyhunters-breach-june-2023/
- Resecurity CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/resecurity/history
- Resecurity CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/breachforums-breached-exposing-324k-cybercriminals
- 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