Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (THELIDMARHAR1783961535)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Co-op'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 Co-op 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 Co-op breach identified under incident ID THELIDMARHAR1783961535.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Co-op's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-co-op-group, the number of followers: 237038, the industry type: Retail and the number of employees: 21188 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 709 and after the incident was 366 with a difference of -343 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 Co-op and their customers.
Lidl recently reported "Lidl Data Breach Exposes Customer Information Across Three European Countries", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
Lidl has alerted customers in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany about a data breach involving an external IT vendor.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Personal data (names, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, customer numbers).
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Customer advisories issued.
The case underscores how teams are taking away lessons such as Highlights the risks of third-party vendor vulnerabilities in supply chain attacks, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Alerts sent to affected customers in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany.
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 Supply Chain Compromise (T1195) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including data breach involving an external IT vendor, and third-party vendor vulnerability in supply chain attacks. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Steal Application Access Token (T1528) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating accessed and partially copied a file containing personal data via vendor. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating partially copied a file containing personal data (names, phone numbers, emails). Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating unidentified threat actors accessed and partially copied a file and Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating data breach involving an external IT vendor (cloud-based access possible). Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating partial file copy suggests potential for further misuse and Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating threat actors accessed and partially copied a file (manipulation risk). These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Co-op Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/the-co-op-group/incident/THELIDMARHAR1783961535
- Co-op CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/the-co-op-group
- Co-op Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/thelidmarhar1783961535-lidl-harrods-marks-spencer-co-op-uk-breach-january-2025/
- Co-op CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/the-co-op-group/history
- Co-op CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.esmmagazine.com/technology/lidl-webshop-customer-data-affected-by-cyber-incident-reports-suggest-316400
- 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