Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (ARI1772570049)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Ariomex's Breach 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 Ariomex 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 Ariomex breach identified under incident ID ARI1772570049.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Ariomex's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ariomex, the number of followers: 74, the industry type: Financial Services and the number of employees: 13 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 755 and after the incident was 665 with a difference of -90 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 Ariomex and their customers.
On 03 March 2026, Ariomex disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Iran-Based Crypto Exchange Ariomex Hit by Major Data Leak".
Ariomex, a prominent Iranian cryptocurrency exchange, suffered a data breach exposing sensitive user and transaction records spanning 2022 to 2025.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Customer support system, database, and exposing Sensitive user and transaction records, identities, email addresses, IP data, cryptocurrency operations, with nearly 11,800 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 to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating breach’s root cause appears to stem from a compromised customer support system and External Remote Services (T1133) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating compromised customer support system, allowing threat actors to access. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Container API (T1552.007) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating suspicious activity, such as accounts with substantial balances lacking proper KYC and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating accounts with substantial balances...containing altered information. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating exposing sensitive user and transaction records...identities, email addresses, IP data and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating leaked database...includes details of over 11,800 users. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration...database now circulating on the Dark Web and Exfiltration Over Web Service (T1567) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating data breach exposing sensitive user and transaction records. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating high-value transactions...allegedly facilitated through Iranian diplomatic channels and Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating accounts...containing altered information. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Ariomex Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/ariomex/incident/ARI1772570049
- Ariomex CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/ariomex
- Ariomex Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/ari1772570049-ariomex-breach-january-2022/
- Ariomex CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/ariomex/history
- Ariomex CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://securityaffairs.com/188848/digital-id/ariomex-iran-based-crypto-exchange-suffers-data-leak.html
- 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