Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (ROS1789410912)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Rosatom'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 Rosatom 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 Rosatom breach identified under incident ID ROS1789410912.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Rosatom's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rosatom, the number of followers: 0, the industry type: Utilities and the number of employees: 355 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 829 and after the incident was 820 with a difference of -9 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 Rosatom and their customers.
On 01 February 2024, Rosatom contractor disclosed ransomware, wiper malware and data breach issues under the banner "Pro-Ukraine Hacktivist Group Hacking Cat Evolves with Destructive Cyberattacks on Russian Targets".
Researchers at Kaspersky have identified a shift in tactics by the pro-Ukraine hacktivist group Hacking Cat, which has transitioned from website defacements and data leaks to more advanced and destructive cyber operations targeting Russian entities.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Rosatom contractor systems and Donbassteploenergo heating provider systems, and exposing True.
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Telegram statements (denial of responsibility for some malware).
The case underscores how ongoing, teams are taking away lessons such as The evolving tactics of decentralized hacktivist groups, including the use of generative AI for malware development and shared tooling among collectives, complicate attribution and defense strategies, and recommending next steps like Enhance monitoring for lateral movement and remote-access tool usage, Patch Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities promptly and Collaborate with cybersecurity researchers to track emerging threats from hacktivist groups.
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 Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating exploited Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities to gain initial access. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities exploited for execution and User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating deploying data-encrypting and wiper malware. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified External Remote Services (T1133) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating gorilla RAT, a custom remote-access tool that tunnels network traffic. Under the Lateral Movement tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation of Remote Services (T1210) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating gorilla RAT enables attackers to move laterally within compromised systems. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating monkey Ransomware variants written in multiple programming languages and Hide Artifacts: Hidden Window (T1564.003) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating gorilla RAT tunnels network traffic for stealth. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating monkey Ransomware encrypts files with a .monkey extension and Data Destruction (T1485) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating nemo Wiper malware designed to permanently destroy data. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Ingress Tool Transfer (T1105) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating gorilla RAT tunnels network traffic for C2 and Application Layer Protocol: Web Protocols (T1071.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating remote-access tool (Gorilla RAT) for C2 communication. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Rosatom Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/rosatom/incident/ROS1789410912
- Rosatom CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/rosatom
- Rosatom Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/ros1789410912-rosatom-cyber-attack-february-2024/
- Rosatom CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/rosatom/history
- Rosatom CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://therecord.media/ukraine-malware-russia-ransomware
- 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