Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (ROC1776084172)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Rockstar Games's Cyber Attack 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 Rockstar Games 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 Rockstar Games breach identified under incident ID ROC1776084172.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Rockstar Games's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rockstar-games, the number of followers: 770003, the industry type: Computer Games and the number of employees: 5138 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 773 and after the incident was 755 with a difference of -18 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 Rockstar Games and their customers.
Rockstar Games recently reported "Rockstar Games Hit by Second Major Hack in Three Years; Stolen GTA 6 Footage Leaked", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
Rockstar Games confirmed a cyberattack after hackers leaked 90 video clips of unfinished GTA 6 gameplay online.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Rockstar Games servers, and exposing Unfinished GTA 6 gameplay footage, potential source code and internal files.
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Public statement downplaying the incident.
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 Trusted Relationship (T1199) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating attackers claimed to have infiltrated Rockstar’s servers via a third-party cloud provider. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Steal Application Access Token (T1528) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating infiltrated Rockstar’s servers via a third-party cloud provider (implied cloud credentials abuse). Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Cloud Storage (T1530) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating 90 video clips of unfinished GTA 6 gameplay leaked; potential source code and internal files. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration confirmed; hackers leaked 90 video clips online and Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating shinyHunters demanded ransom, threatening to release additional stolen data. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating ransom demanded; no explicit encryption details but implied extortion and Defacement: Internal Defacement (T1491.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating leaked 90 video clips of unfinished GTA 6 gameplay online. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Application Layer Protocol: Web Protocols (T1071.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating shinyHunters demanded ransom (likely via web-based C2). These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Rockstar Games Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/rockstar-games/incident/ROC1776084172
- Rockstar Games CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/rockstar-games
- Rockstar Games Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/roc1776084172-rockstar-games-cyber-attack-september-2023/
- Rockstar Games CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/rockstar-games/history
- Rockstar Games CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2dg5g1le7o
- 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