Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (STGGEN1781022312)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of St. George Fire Department'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 St. George Fire Department 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 St. George Fire Department breach identified under incident ID STGGEN1781022312.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of St. George Fire Department's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stgeorgefiredepartment, the number of followers: 74, the industry type: Fire Protection and the number of employees: 61 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 765 and after the incident was 739 with a difference of -26 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 St. George Fire Department and their customers.
On 23 December 2023, St. George Fire Protection District disclosed Data Breach, Potential Ransomware issues under the banner "St. George Fire Protection District Cybersecurity Breach Lawsuit".
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The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Domain controllers, network infrastructure, emergency services coordination systems, plus an estimated financial loss of Costs for new hardware and security measures, remediation and legal fees billed by General Informatics.
In response, and began remediation that includes Rebuilt entire network, implemented new hardware and security measures.
The case underscores how Completed (five-month review by Louisiana’s Emergency Support Function-17), teams are taking away lessons such as Systemic failures in cybersecurity practices, risks of third-party vendor oversight, importance of network segmentation, secure credential management, and proper logging of firewall activity, and recommending next steps like Implement network segmentation, enforce secure credential storage, enable firewall logging, ensure proper backup procedures, avoid reusing compromised credentials, and conduct regular security audits for third-party vendors.
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 Valid Accounts (T1078) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including exploiting legitimate network tools to evade detection, and reusing compromised credentials across clients and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate to high confidence (70%), with evidence including insecure remote access tools, and failed to secure its remote access tools. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating living off the land attack, exploiting legitimate network tools. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including escalate privileges...impersonate authorized users, and domain controllers critical servers that manage authentication and Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism (T1548) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating exploiting legitimate network tools to...escalate privileges. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating exploiting legitimate network tools to evade detection, Masquerading (T1036) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating impersonate authorized users and move freely within the network, and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating unlogged firewall activity. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating reusing compromised credentials across clients and Unsecured Credentials: Credentials In Files (T1552.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating administrative credentials stored in plain text. Under the Lateral Movement tactic, the analysis identified Remote Services: Remote Desktop Protocol (T1021.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating insecure remote access tools and Valid Accounts (T1078) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including move freely within the network, and impersonate authorized users. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating potential access to other municipal networks. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating potential ransomware or gain access to other municipal networks. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating potentially deploy ransomware and Resource Hijacking (T1496) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating disruption to emergency services coordination. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- St. George Fire Department Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/stgeorgefiredepartment/incident/STGGEN1781022312
- St. George Fire Department CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/stgeorgefiredepartment
- St. George Fire Department Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/stggen1781022312-st-george-fire-protection-district-general-informatics-cyber-attack-december-2023/
- St. George Fire Department CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/stgeorgefiredepartment/history
- St. George Fire Department CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.govtech.com/security/louisiana-fire-district-sues-cybersecurity-firm-after-hack
- 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