Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (THELONJAG1772814307)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Co-op'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 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 THELONJAG1772814307.
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 723 and after the incident was 700 with a difference of -23 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.
On 01 September 2024, Transport for London (TfL) disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Massive Cyberattack on Transport for London Exposes Data of 10 Million Customers".
In one of the largest data breaches in British history, Transport for London (TfL) confirmed that a cyberattack in late 2024 compromised the personal data of approximately 10 million customers.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Online services, and exposing Personal data (names, contact details, bank account information for 5,000 individuals), with nearly 10 million (5,000 with bank account information) records at risk, plus an estimated financial loss of Tens of millions of pounds.
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Notified over 7 million customers via email.
The case underscores how Ongoing (trial set for June 2025), with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Notified over 7 million customers via email in September 2024.
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 moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating caused three months of online service outages and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating scattered Spider threat actor linked to breach. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials (T1552) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating bank account information for 5,000 individuals accessed and Brute Force (T1110) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating scattered Spider known for credential-based attacks. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating personal data (names, contact details) compromised and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating 10 million customer records exposed. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating data breach impacting 10 million customers and Exfiltration Over Web Service (T1567) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating online service outages suggest data exfiltration. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Endpoint Denial of Service (T1499) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating three months of online service outages and Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating no details on encryption, but outages suggest disruption. 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/THELONJAG1772814307
- 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/thelonjag1772814307-co-op-jaguar-land-rover-marks-spencer-cyber-attack-august-2024/
- Co-op CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/the-co-op-group/history
- Co-op CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/millions-had-data-stolen-in-2024-london-transport-hack-bbc/articleshow/129159381.cms
- 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