Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (CALADS1781691953)
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Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Autorità di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico centro settentrionale'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 Autorità di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico centro settentrionale 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 Autorità di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico centro settentrionale breach identified under incident ID CALADS1781691953.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Autorità di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico centro settentrionale's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/adspmacs, the number of followers: 4676, the industry type: Government Administration and the number of employees: 111 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 759 and after the incident was 630 with a difference of -129 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 Autorità di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico centro settentrionale and their customers.
On 01 January 2026, Adriatic Port Authority (Autorità di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Centrale) disclosed Ransomware issues under the banner "Anubis Ransomware Attack Disrupts Adriatic Port Authority, Exposing Critical Infrastructure Vulnerabilities".
In a high-profile cyberattack, the Anubis ransomware group targeted the Adriatic Port Authority (Autorità di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Centrale), which oversees Italy’s Port of Ancona, disrupting maritime logistics and exposing systemic risks in critical transportati...
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Cargo tracking, Shipping schedules and Customs processing, and exposing Contracts, employee records, plus an estimated financial loss of Millions in economic losses.
In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Isolating affected systems, and began remediation that includes Restoring data from backups.
The case underscores how teams are taking away lessons such as The attack highlighted the growing threat to cyber-physical sectors, where IT breaches can disrupt physical operations. It underscored the attractiveness of ports as targets due to digitalization, interconnected logistics platforms, and often weak cybersecurity defenses. Aging infrastructure, limited cybersecurity maturity, and IT-OT convergence create high-value opportunities for cybercriminals.
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%), supported by evidence indicating gained initial access via a spear-phishing email containing a malicious attachment. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating spear-phishing email containing a malicious attachment. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities and escalating privileges. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating exploited insecure accounts managing Office 365/Azure. Under the Lateral Movement tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation of Remote Services (T1210) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating moved laterally through the network by exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating encrypted thousands of files, crippling the port’s digital systems and Defacement: Internal Defacement (T1491.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating disrupting maritime logistics and exposing systemic risks. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating exfiltrating sensitive data such as contracts and employee records. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating exploited insecure accounts managing Office 365/Azure and Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating moved laterally through the network by exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Autorità di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico centro settentrionale Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/adspmacs/incident/CALADS1781691953
- Autorità di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico centro settentrionale CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/adspmacs
- Autorità di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico centro settentrionale Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/calads1781691953-adriatic-port-authority-california-water-service-ransomware-december-2025/
- Autorità di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico centro settentrionale CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/adspmacs/history
- Autorità di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico centro settentrionale CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://industrialcyber.co/transport/resecurity-details-anubis-ransomware-attack-on-adriatic-port-authority-exposing-maritime-infrastructure-risks/
- 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