Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (ADVADV1779128933)
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Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Advanced Heart Care'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 Advanced Heart Care 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 Advanced Heart Care breach identified under incident ID ADVADV1779128933.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Advanced Heart Care's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/advanced-heart-care, the number of followers: 0, the industry type: Medical Practices and the number of employees: 96 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 822 and after the incident was 727 with a difference of -95 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 Advanced Heart Care and their customers.
AdvancedHealth recently reported "DragonForce Ransomware Attack on AdvancedHealth", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
The ransomware group DragonForce has taken responsibility for a cyberattack on AdvancedHealth, a Tennessee-based healthcare network.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Electronic medical record access, and exposing 390 GB of data, including 2.3 million lines of patient records, partner agreements, payroll, and HR files, with nearly 2.3 million lines of patient records records at risk.
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 Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating breach involved the theft of 390 GB of data via healthcare network and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating dragonForce RaaS operation active; likely used compromised credentials. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack disrupted electronic medical record access. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating dragonForce RaaS likely maintained access via compromised accounts. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating access to 390 GB of data suggests elevated privileges. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating dragonForce ransomware group known for evasion tactics and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating disrupted electronic medical record access suggests defense impairment. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating payroll and HR files compromised; likely credential harvesting and Credentials from Password Stores (T1555) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating access to sensitive data implies credential theft. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Account Discovery (T1087) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating 2.3 million lines of patient records accessed; likely account enumeration and File and Directory Discovery (T1083) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating 390 GB of data stolen; extensive file discovery. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating 390 GB of data, including patient records, payroll, and HR files and Data from Network Shared Drive (T1039) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating partner agreements and HR files suggest shared drive access. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating 390 GB of data exfiltrated; DragonForce threatened to leak data and Exfiltration Over Web Service (T1567) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware group threatened daily data leaks unless ransom paid. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack; disrupted electronic medical record access and Defacement (T1491) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating dragonForce publicly claimed responsibility for the attack. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Advanced Heart Care Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/advanced-heart-care/incident/ADVADV1779128933
- Advanced Heart Care CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/advanced-heart-care
- Advanced Heart Care Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/advadv1779128933-advancedhealth-heart-of-texas-behavioral-health-network-ransomware-may-2026/
- Advanced Heart Care CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/advanced-heart-care/history
- Advanced Heart Care CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.comparitech.com/news/cybercriminals-say-they-breached-advancedhealth-tennessee-clinic-confirms/
- 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