Playbook Objectives:
- To enhance the company’s defensive capabilities towards MITM attacks.
- To detect any potential network weaknesses that a cybercriminal might exploit for a MITM attack.
- To understand and evaluate the existing security measures’ effectiveness and possibly improve them.
- To improve the team’s response to potential MITM attacks in real situations.
- To educate the team on how a MITM attack could infiltrate the company’s network and how to prevent it.
Difficulty level:
- Intermediate
Scenario:
- TechSolution Corp, a top-tier cybersecurity software company located in Silicon Valley, is planning an exercise to simulate a Man-in-the-Middle attack. The company is actively developing advanced security technologies for corporate networks, making it a target for cybercriminals, corporate spies and black hat hackers wanting to expose potential flaws or steal proprietary information.
- The CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) “John Doe”, understands the risks and has planned a MITM attack simulation to expose any network weaknesses and beef up the company’s defenses. This simulation will also serve as a learning experience for the entire team to understand how cybercriminals could infiltrate the network.
- TechSolution Corp has a massive network containing various classified and sensitive data. It primarily uses an intranet system for internal communication, along with a connected VPN for off-site employees. On-site, they have a Wi-Fi network connected to this intranet.
- The CISO and his team have identified these as potential vulnerabilities for a MITM attack and will include them in the simulation. The primary objective for this exercise is to impact the company’s continuous efforts towards a more robust and impervious network, ensuring overall business continuity.
Category:
- Cybersecurity – Man in the Middle Attack
Exercise Attack Steps:
- Reconnaissance: Identify key systems, key personnel, network architecture and the security measures in place at TechSolution Corp.
- Weaponization: Set up interceptor device or software capable of intercepting and altering network traffic between devices.
- Delivery: Deploy the MITM attack setup within the company’s network, focusing either on the intranet or the Wi-Fi network for maximum disruption.
- Exploitation: Use the interceptor to infiltrate the traffic and attempt to access classified and sensitive data being transmitted.
- Installation: Attempt to maintain access within the system by installing malicious software or exploit the system’s network for as long as possible before detection.
- Control: Proceed to manipulate or control the information flow if the attack remains undetected. This step involves redirecting, altering or deleting packets of information as they are transmitted.
