Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (FEDUPS1788791163)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of UPS's Ransomware 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 UPS 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 UPS breach identified under incident ID FEDUPS1788791163.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of UPS's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ups, the number of followers: 2301741, the industry type: Truck Transportation and the number of employees: 182515 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 816 and after the incident was 723 with a difference of -93 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 UPS and their customers.
A newly reported cybersecurity incident, "Cryptolocker Ransomware Attack", has drawn attention.
In 2013, a new strain of ransomware called Cryptolocker emerged, reshaping public awareness of digital extortion.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting 250,000 computers, and exposing Encrypted user files, plus an estimated financial loss of $27 million in ransom payments.
In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Disruption of Gameover Zeus botnet, dismantling of command servers.
The case underscores how Threat actor remains at large, teams are taking away lessons such as Demonstrated the scale and profitability of ransomware attacks, serving as a turning point in cybersecurity awareness.
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: Spearphishing Attachment (T1566.001) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including spam emails disguised as legitimate communications, and zIP file attachments deployed a Trojan horse and Phishing: Spearphishing Link (T1566.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating fake customer complaints, UPS/FedEx shipping alerts, problematic check transactions. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating zIP file attachments...deployed a Trojan horse, infecting systems. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Masquerading: Match Legitimate Name or Location (T1036.005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating emails impersonated UPS and FedEx shipping alerts or flagged problematic check transactions and Command and Scripting Interpreter: Visual Basic (T1059.005) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating trojan horse...infecting systems and linking them to a botnet (common VB use). Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (100%), supported by evidence indicating cryptolocker encrypted users files, demanding ransom payments in bitcoin. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Application Layer Protocol: Web Protocols (T1071.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating infected systems...linking them to a botnet (Gameover Zeus infrastructure). Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating botnet infrastructure (Gameover Zeus) likely facilitated ransom payment tracking. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- UPS Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/ups/incident/FEDUPS1788791163
- UPS CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/ups
- UPS Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/fedups1788791163-fedex-ups-ransomware-september-2013/
- UPS CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/ups/history
- UPS CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.msspalert.com/brief/cryptolocker-ransomware-a-look-back-at-its-widespread-impact
- 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