Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (MCGSUBAMTADTHALPANCARBET1785169886)

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the Substack breach identified under incident ID MCGSUBAMTADTHALPANCARBET1785169886.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Substack's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/substack, the number of followers: 72365, the industry type: Online Audio and Video Media and the number of employees: 2843 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 662 and after the incident was 498 with a difference of -164 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 Substack and their customers.

Amtrak recently reported "Sextortion Scammers Exploit ShinyHunters Data Leaks in $2,000 Bitcoin Scheme", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.

Cybercriminals are leveraging email addresses from past ShinyHunters data breaches to lend false credibility to a new wave of sextortion scams, demanding $2,000 in Bitcoin from victims.

The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Email addresses, previously exposed personal data (no new breach confirmed), plus an estimated financial loss of $2,000 Bitcoin demand per victim.

In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Victims advised to ignore threats and report emails as spam, and began remediation that includes Change passwords if previously exposed, enable two-factor authentication (2FA), and stakeholders are being briefed through Public advisories (e.g., BleepingComputer) to raise awareness.

The case underscores how Ongoing (no evidence of actual compromise), teams are taking away lessons such as Leaked data from previous breaches continues to fuel cybercrime, even when the original breach has been addressed. Psychological manipulation is a key tactic in sextortion scams, and recommending next steps like Ignore sextortion threats and avoid engaging with scammers, Report scam emails as spam and Change passwords if previously exposed and enable two-factor authentication (2FA), with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Security experts confirm the emails are bluffs with no verifiable proof.

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.