Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (GRUPOPRES1769017007)
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Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Restaurant Brands International'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 Restaurant Brands International 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 Restaurant Brands International breach identified under incident ID GRUPOPRES1769017007.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Restaurant Brands International's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/restaurant-brands-international, the number of followers: 202301, the industry type: Food and Beverage Services and the number of employees: 9280 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 813 and after the incident was 744 with a difference of -69 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 Restaurant Brands International and their customers.
Grubhub recently reported "Grubhub Breach Highlights Growing Third-Party Cyber Risks in the Restaurant Industry", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
In early 2025, Grubhub, one of the largest third-party vendors serving the U.S.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Third-party delivery platforms, point-of-sale systems, kitchen management systems, and exposing Payment card data, loyalty program details, employee records, plus an estimated financial loss of $3.4 million - $3.9 million per breach (industry average).
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how teams are taking away lessons such as Third-party vulnerabilities are a persistent and escalating threat in the restaurant industry due to interconnected digital supply chains. Rigorous vendor audits, cyber insurance, and compliance with standards like SOC and PCI DSS are critical for mitigation, and recommending next steps like Conduct rigorous vendor audits assessing security policies, response plans, staff training, and compliance with standards like SOC and PCI DSS, Clarify indemnities in vendor contracts to mitigate fallout from third-party breaches and Structure cyber insurance policies to cover first- and third-party liabilities, including wire transfer fraud, credit card breaches, and business interruption.
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%), with evidence including cyber incident originating from one of its own service providers, and third-party breaches now account for 30% of all cyber incidents and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate to high confidence (70%), with evidence including hard-coded passwords that could disrupt operations, and flaws in Restaurant Brands Inc.’s systems. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (80%), with evidence including hard-coded passwords that could disrupt operations, and vulnerabilities in their interconnected digital supply chains. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including payment card data, loyalty program details, employee records compromised, and 80% of restaurant transactions are now electronic. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), with evidence including breaches go undetected for 212 days, giving attackers ample time to steal data, and high payment information risk. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Service Stoppage (T1489) with moderate to high confidence (70%), with evidence including hard-coded passwords that could disrupt operations, and business interruption costs included in breach impact and Defacement (T1491) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating brand reputation impact implied by third-party risks. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (80%), with evidence including hard-coded passwords used to evade detection, and breaches undetected for 212 days. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Restaurant Brands International Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/restaurant-brands-international/incident/GRUPOPRES1769017007
- Restaurant Brands International CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/restaurant-brands-international
- Restaurant Brands International Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/grupopres1769017007-grubhub-popeyes-restaurant-brands-inc-breach-september-2024/
- Restaurant Brands International CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/restaurant-brands-international/history
- Restaurant Brands International CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://modernrestaurantmanagement.com/what-restaurants-need-to-know-about-managing-third-party-cyber-risks/
- 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