European Commission Breach Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (EUR1774635987)

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the European Commission breach identified under incident ID EUR1774635987.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of European Commission's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/european-commission, the number of followers: 2433673, the industry type: Government Administration and the number of employees: 41562 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 761 and after the incident was 747 with a difference of -14 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 European Commission and their customers.

On 27 March 2024, European Commission disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "EU Commission’s Europa Web Platform Hit by Cyberattack, Data Likely Stolen".

On March 24, the European Commission confirmed a cyberattack targeting its cloud infrastructure hosting the Europa web platform, a key portal for EU communications and services.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Europa web platform (cloud infrastructure), and exposing Yes.

In response, teams activated the incident response plan, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Swift containment.

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.

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 to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating cyberattack targeting its cloud infrastructure hosting the Europa web platform. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating early findings indicating that data was exfiltrated from affected websites and Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating cloud infrastructure hosting the Europa web platform. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data was exfiltrated from affected websites. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating incident, detected and contained swiftly. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Defacement: Internal Defacement (T1491.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating key portal for EU communications and services. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.