Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (SUMTEX1769189079)
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Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of The Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine'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 The Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine 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 The Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine breach identified under incident ID SUMTEX1769189079.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of The Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/texasheartinstitute, the number of followers: 15511, the industry type: Research Services and the number of employees: 332 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 753 and after the incident was 692 with a difference of -61 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 The Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine and their customers.
Heart South Cardiovascular Group recently reported "Dark Web Data Breaches Surge, Exposing Millions to Identity Theft and Fraud", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
A sharp rise in data breaches has left the personal and health information of millions vulnerable, with much of the compromised data appearing on the Dark Web.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Protected Health Information (PHI) and Social Security numbers, plus an estimated financial loss of Billions in losses tied to identity theft (FTC).
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how teams are taking away lessons such as Organizations take an average of 194 days to detect a breach and another 64 days to contain it, allowing stolen data to circulate undetected. Long-term vigilance is necessary as exposed data may remain in circulation indefinitely.
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 Phishing (T1566) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including attack vector such as Phishing, and hackers exploit vulnerabilities...through phishing or social engineering attacks and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating outdated software, weak security controls exploited. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution (T1204) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating inadequate employee training often through phishing or social engineering attacks. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Credentials from Password Stores (T1555) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating bank login credentials compromised and traded in underground marketplaces and Brute Force (T1110) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating weak security controls exploited. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating pII, PHI, Social Security numbers, medical records compromised and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating healthcare providers, financial institutions targeted for sensitive data. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating data traded in underground marketplaces (Dark Web) and Exfiltration Over Web Service (T1567) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating dark Web exposure; data bought, sold, and resold. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating data may remain in circulation indefinitely, increasing identity theft risk and Data Manipulation (T1565) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized account activity, financial harm reported. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating bank login credentials compromised; likely used for unauthorized access and Hide Artifacts (T1564) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating 194 days to detect breach; 64 days to contain it. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- The Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/texasheartinstitute/incident/SUMTEX1769189079
- The Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/texasheartinstitute
- The Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/sumtex1769189079-summit-college-heart-south-cardiovascular-group-breach-january-2024/
- The Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/texasheartinstitute/history
- The Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/investigations/data-breach-with-dark-web-exposure-class-action-lawsuit/
- 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