Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (YES1787941722)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of YES! Communities'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 YES! Communities 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 YES! Communities breach identified under incident ID YES1787941722.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of YES! Communities's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/yes-communities, the number of followers: 22565, the industry type: Real Estate and the number of employees: 1723 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 644 with a difference of -118 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 YES! Communities and their customers.
On 09 December 2024, Yes Communities disclosed Data Breach, Ransomware issues under the banner "Yes Communities Data Breach Settlement".
A class action settlement has been reached in a lawsuit against Yes Communities, resolving claims that the company failed to adequately protect sensitive personal data during a December 2024 data breach.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Social Security numbers, financial account details, birthdates, driver’s license numbers, plus an estimated financial loss of Up to $2,500 per individual for documented losses.
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Mailed notices to affected individuals.
The case underscores how Settled, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Mailed notices with compensation options.
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 Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack between December 9 and 11, 2024 and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating failed to adequately protect sensitive personal data. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack...accessed and stole unencrypted information. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials (T1552) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating unencrypted information...financial account details stolen. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating social Security numbers, financial account details compromised. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating hackers allegedly accessed and stole unencrypted information. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack...data encryption confirmed and Data Destruction (T1485) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating high-risk identity theft and payment information risk. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating failed to adequately protect sensitive personal data. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- YES! Communities Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/yes-communities/incident/YES1787941722
- YES! Communities CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/yes-communities
- YES! Communities Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/yes1787941722-yes-communities-ransomware-december-2024/
- YES! Communities CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/yes-communities/history
- YES! Communities CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.claimdepot.com/settlements/yes-communities-data-incident
- 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