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Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (THE1764914088)

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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis

Rankiteo Incident Impact-5
Company Score Before Incident758 / 1000
Company Score After Incident753 / 1000
Company LinkView The Hacker News Profile
INCIDENT NUMBERTHE1764914088
Type of Cyber IncidentVulnerability
ATTACK VECTORAuthenticated remote access via .jsp file upload
DATA EXPOSEDNA
INCIDENT DATE31/12/2020
STATUSpublished

Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis

  • Timeline of The Hacker News's Vulnerability 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 Hacker News 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 Hacker News breach identified under incident ID THE1764914088.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of The Hacker News's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thehackernews, the number of followers: 716230, the industry type: Computer and Network Security and the number of employees: 85 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 758 and after the incident was 753 with a difference of -5 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 Hacker News and their customers.

ScadaBR (OpenPLC) recently reported "Exploitation of ScadaBR Vulnerabilities for Remote Code Execution", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.

Hackers are targeting two four-year-old vulnerabilities in the open-source supervisory control and data acquisition platform ScadaBR.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting OpenPLC ScadaBR (Linux: through 0.9.1, Windows: through 1.12.4).

Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.

Overall, the incident is a reminder of why proactive monitoring and strong governance matter.

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 cVE-2021-26828 allows remote, authenticated users to upload arbitrary code. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating perform remote code execution via .jsp files in OpenPLC ScadaBR and Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating remote code execution via .jsp files (implied scripting). Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating authenticated users upload arbitrary code (potential privilege escalation). Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Masquerading (T1036) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating upload arbitrary code via .jsp files (legitimate file type abuse). These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.

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