South Country Health Alliance Breach Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (SOU1765499305)

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the South Country Health Alliance breach identified under incident ID SOU1765499305.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of South Country Health Alliance's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/south-country-health-alliance, the number of followers: 457, the industry type: Hospitals and Health Care and the number of employees: 71 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 740 and after the incident was 676 with a difference of -64 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 South Country Health Alliance and their customers.

On 10 December 2023, Wabasha County Emergency Management disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Wabasha County Emergency Notification System Data Breach".

A data breach related to Wabasha County's emergency notification system, OnSolve CodeRED, has potentially impacted residents' online security.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting OnSolve CodeRED emergency notification system, and exposing Users' names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and passwords.

In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Compromised system disabled, and began remediation that includes Replacing with an improved emergency notification system, and stakeholders are being briefed through Public advisory via Facebook and contact information for inquiries.

The case underscores how Ongoing, and recommending next steps like Change passwords for any accounts using the same password as CodeRED, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Public advisory to change passwords and contact emergency management for inquiries.

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.

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 moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating vulnerabilities in third-party emergency alert systems and Trusted Relationship (T1199) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating breach via OnSolve CodeRED, a third-party system. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Credentials from Password Stores (T1555) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating passwords tied to the CodeRED platform may have been exfiltrated. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating potential exfiltration of user data by organized cybercriminal group and Automated Exfiltration (T1020) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data may have been removed from the system. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating compromised system disabled and being replaced and Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating no evidence of ransomware or encryption in incident. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.