Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (VCP1781271884)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of vcpi, a DAS Health Company'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 vcpi, a DAS Health Company 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 vcpi, a DAS Health Company breach identified under incident ID VCP1781271884.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of vcpi, a DAS Health Company's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vcpi, the number of followers: 2139, the industry type: IT Services and IT Consulting and the number of employees: 79 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 689 and after the incident was 574 with a difference of -115 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 vcpi, a DAS Health Company and their customers.
On 18 November 2019, Virtual Care Provider Inc. (VCPI) disclosed Ransomware issues under the banner "Ransomware Attack Disrupts Critical Services for 100+ Nursing Home Providers".
A ransomware attack on Virtual Care Provider Inc.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Servers, electronic health records (EHR), email, active directory access, billing systems, and exposing Patient medical records, payroll systems, medication ordering data.
In response, and began remediation that includes Prioritizing restoration of EHR, email, and active directory access, while recovery efforts such as Restoring operations and enhancing security measures continue.
The case underscores how Ongoing, teams are taking away lessons such as Failure to implement basic security updates and patch vulnerabilities like EternalBlue and BlueKeep can lead to severe disruptions and life-threatening risks for healthcare providers, and recommending next steps like Implement regular security updates, enhance monitoring, and prioritize patch management to prevent ransomware attacks.
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 unpatched vulnerabilities like EternalBlue and BlueKeep and Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating trickBot virus spread via unpatched vulnerabilities. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating trickBot virus deployed, leading to Ryuk ransomware and Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating ryuk ransomware execution on compromised servers. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating active directory access compromised; likely used for persistence. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating unpatched vulnerabilities (EternalBlue, BlueKeep) exploited. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating ryuk ransomware encrypted servers and data and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating cut off access to security services for nursing homes. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating active directory access compromised; likely credential dumping. Under the Lateral Movement tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation of Remote Services (T1210) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating trickBot spread via unpatched vulnerabilities across servers. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating ryuk ransomware encrypted servers; $14M ransom demanded and Inhibit System Recovery (T1490) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating 20% of servers compromised; disrupted EHR and payroll systems. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating trickBot virus likely used for data exfiltration pre-encryption. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- vcpi, a DAS Health Company Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/vcpi/incident/VCP1781271884
- vcpi, a DAS Health Company CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/vcpi
- vcpi, a DAS Health Company Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/vcp1781271884-virtual-care-provider-inc-ransomware-november-2019/
- vcpi, a DAS Health Company CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/vcpi/history
- vcpi, a DAS Health Company CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/tech/nursing-home-it-company-hit-ransomware-cutting-off-providers-access-to-patient-medical-records
- 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