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Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (TBS1786048347)

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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis

Rankiteo Incident Impact-153
Company Score Before Incident769 / 1000
Company Score After Incident616 / 1000
Company LinkView Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat | Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor du Canada Profile
INCIDENT NUMBERTBS1786048347
Type of Cyber IncidentBreach
ATTACK VECTORVulnerability Exploitation
DATA EXPOSEDSocial insurance numbers, home addresses,...
INCIDENT DATE29/02/2020
STATUSSettlement finalized

Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis

  • Timeline of Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat | Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor du Canada's Breach 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 Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat | Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor du Canada 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 Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat | Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor du Canada breach identified under incident ID TBS1786048347.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat | Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor du Canada's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tbs-sct, the number of followers: 72685, the industry type: Government Administration and the number of employees: 1676 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 769 and after the incident was 616 with a difference of -153 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 Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat | Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor du Canada and their customers.

On 01 March 2020, Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "2020 Government Data Breach Affecting Canadians".

A class-action settlement worth $8.7 million is now open for Canadians whose personal and financial data was compromised in a 2020 cyberattack targeting government accounts, including the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) portal.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) portal, and exposing Social insurance numbers, home addresses, bank details, with nearly Tens of thousands records at risk, plus an estimated financial loss of $8.7M settlement fund.

In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Temporary shutdown of online services, and stakeholders are being briefed through Notices sent to affected individuals, public announcements.

The case underscores how Settlement finalized, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Notices sent to affected individuals via KPMG.

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 hackers exploited vulnerabilities to access sensitive information. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating fraudulently applied for COVID-19 emergency benefits using compromised data and Steal Application Access Token (T1528) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating accessed CRA portal to retrieve sensitive personal and financial data. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating social insurance numbers, home addresses, and bank details compromised. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating data used for fraudulent benefit applications (CERB/CESB). Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating no details on encryption, but data was exploited for fraud and Data Manipulation: Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating fraudulent applications for COVID-19 emergency benefits. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts: Cloud Accounts (T1078.004) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating used compromised CRA portal accounts to bypass security controls. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.

Initial Access
Exploit Public-Facing Application (90%)
Credential Access
Valid Accounts (80%)
Steal Application Access Token (70%)
Collection
Data from Local System (90%)
Exfiltration
Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (80%)
Impact
Data Encrypted for Impact (30%)
Data Manipulation: Stored Data Manipulation (70%)
Defense Evasion
Valid Accounts: Cloud Accounts (80%)

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