Welcome investigator.
During routine monitoring of the SCFS Secure Operations Portal, analysts identified irregular activity associated with the financial reconciliation system. Several automated exports were triggered outside of the normal maintenance window and unusual system activity was observed involving an internal service account.
Initial review suggests that operational records, financial exports, and internal logs may have been accessed or manipulated.
Your task is to investigate the portal, trace the compromise path, and identify the vulnerabilities that allowed this incident to occur.
In real security operations, discovering a vulnerability is only the beginning. Once the compromise path is understood, analysts must determine how the system should be secured to prevent the incident from happening again.
After completing the investigation, you will be asked to propose remediation steps for the vulnerabilities you discovered.
Follow the evidence. Trust the artifacts. Think like an investigator.
"A king may move a man, but a wise man moves himself."