Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (WES1768914341)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Westlife Foodworld Limited'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 Westlife Foodworld Limited 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 Westlife Foodworld Limited breach identified under incident ID WES1768914341.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Westlife Foodworld Limited's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/westlife-foodworld-ltd, the number of followers: 21817, the industry type: Food and Beverage Services and the number of employees: 129 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 762 and after the incident was 494 with a difference of -268 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 Westlife Foodworld Limited and their customers.
On 20 January 2024, McDonald’s India disclosed Ransomware issues under the banner "Everest Ransomware Gang Threatens to Leak 861GB of Stolen McDonald’s India Data".
The Russia-linked ransomware group Everest has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on McDonald’s India, threatening to publicly release 861GB of stolen data if a ransom demand is not met.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing 861GB.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how Ongoing.
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 Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating attackers allege they gained long-term, unfettered access to McDonald’s India’s systems and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating no details on initial access vector, but public-facing systems are common targets. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating long-term access suggests credential harvesting or dumping and Unsecured Credentials: Credentials In Files (T1552.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating internal financial reports and operational documents exfiltrated. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified File and Directory Discovery (T1083) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating 861GB of data exfiltrated, including 131GB of customer records and Account Discovery (T1087) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating employee personal information (names, emails, account IDs) compromised. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating customer and employee personal information, financial reports, operational documents and Data from Network Shared Drive (T1039) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating large-scale exfiltration (861GB) suggests shared drive access. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating 861GB of data exfiltrated; ransomware group threatens to leak it and Exfiltration Over Web Service (T1567) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating sample data published on dark web to validate claims. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating incident type is ransomware, though encryption status not confirmed and Defacement (T1491) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating threat to publicly release data if ransom not paid. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating long-term, unfettered access suggests use of legitimate credentials and Hide Artifacts: Hidden Files and Directories (T1564.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating no details on persistence, but likely evasion techniques used. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Westlife Foodworld Limited Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/westlife-foodworld-ltd/incident/WES1768914341
- Westlife Foodworld Limited CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/westlife-foodworld-ltd
- Westlife Foodworld Limited Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/wes1768914341-mcdonalds-india-ransomware-june-2017/
- Westlife Foodworld Limited CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/westlife-foodworld-ltd/history
- Westlife Foodworld Limited CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://cybernews.com/security/mcdonalds-breach-ransomware-attack/
- 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