Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (ACR1770407517)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Acronis's Cyber Attack 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 Acronis 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 Acronis breach identified under incident ID ACR1770407517.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Acronis's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acronis, the number of followers: 159002, the industry type: Software Development and the number of employees: 1914 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 574 and after the incident was 555 with a difference of -19 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 Acronis and their customers.
A newly reported cybersecurity incident, "Transparent Tribe Shifts Cyber Espionage Focus to India’s Startup Ecosystem", has drawn attention.
A Pakistan-linked hacking group, Transparent Tribe (APT36), has redirected its cyber espionage efforts from traditional government targets to India’s startup sector, particularly companies in cybersecurity and intelligence.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Sensitive data, intellectual property, files, audio recordings, screen monitoring.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
Overall, the incident is a reminder of why proactive monitoring and strong governance matter.
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 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment (T1566.001) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including malicious emails disguised as legitimate documents, and iSO container file (e.g., MeetBisht.iso) attached to an email and Phishing: Spearphishing Link (T1566.002) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating attackers leveraged personal details of a real founder to craft convincing fake documents. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including shortcut file masquerades as an Excel document, and once opened, the shortcut triggers the batch script, Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell (T1059.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating uses PowerShell to disable security warnings, and Command and Scripting Interpreter: Windows Command Shell (T1059.003) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating batch script to execute the payload. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder (T1547.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating creates a hard-linked executable in the user’s app data folder. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Masquerading: Match Legitimate Name or Location (T1036.005) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including shortcut file masquerades as an Excel document, and crimson RAT disguised as an Excel executable, Obfuscated Files or Information: Binary Padding (T1027.001) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating artificial file bloat (34MB, with only 80–150KB of malicious code), Obfuscated Files or Information: Software Packing (T1027.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating randomized function names to hinder analysis, Hide Artifacts: Hidden Files and Directories (T1564.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating hidden folder containing decoy document, batch script, and payload, and Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information (T1140) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating crimson RAT employs advanced evasion tactics. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Non-Application Layer Protocol (T1095) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating custom TCP protocols on non-standard ports (e.g., 18661, 20856) and Encrypted Channel: Symmetric Cryptography (T1573.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating crimson RAT for command-and-control (C2) communications. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Screen Capture (T1113) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating monitor screens, Audio Capture (T1123) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating record audio, and Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating steal files. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including data exfiltration such as Yes, and custom TCP protocols on non-standard ports for C2 communications. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Acronis Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/acronis/incident/ACR1770407517
- Acronis CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/acronis
- Acronis Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/acr1770407517-acronis-cyber-attack-february-2026/
- Acronis CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/acronis/history
- Acronis CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://cybersecuritynews.com/transparent-tribe-hacker-group/
- 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