Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (ASS1787603158)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Associated Dermatologists'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 Associated Dermatologists 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 Associated Dermatologists breach identified under incident ID ASS1787603158.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Associated Dermatologists's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/associated-dermatologists, the number of followers: 238, the industry type: Medical Practices and the number of employees: 59 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 756 and after the incident was 604 with a difference of -152 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 Associated Dermatologists and their customers.
On 29 July 2026, Associated Endocrinologists disclosed Ransomware issues under the banner "Associated Endocrinologists Ransomware Attack".
Associated Endocrinologists, a prominent Southeast Michigan-based endocrinology practice, disclosed a data breach following a ransomware attack by the hacking group RansomHouse.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Sensitive patient data, including medical records, health insurance details, diagnoses, treatment information, and prescription data, with nearly 4979 records at risk.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how Ongoing.
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 disclosed a data breach following a ransomware attack and External Remote Services (T1133) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating healthcare provider targeted by ransomware. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack by the hacking group RansomHouse. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating attack underscores ongoing threat of ransomware. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating sensitive patient data exposed. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating ransomHouse claimed responsibility on the dark web and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack targeting healthcare provider. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Credentials from Password Stores (T1555) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating medical records, health insurance details compromised. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Account Discovery (T1087) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating 4,979 individuals affected in the U.S.. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating medical records, diagnoses, treatment information exposed. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating data published on the Tor network by RansomHouse and Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating dark web announcement of stolen data. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack disclosed by Associated Endocrinologists and Defacement: Internal Defacement (T1491.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating data breach impacting 4,979 individuals. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Associated Dermatologists Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/associated-dermatologists/incident/ASS1787603158
- Associated Dermatologists CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/associated-dermatologists
- Associated Dermatologists Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/ass1787603158-associated-endocrinologists-ransomware-july-2026/
- Associated Dermatologists CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/associated-dermatologists/history
- Associated Dermatologists CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.claimdepot.com/investigations/associated-endocrinologists-ae-data-breach-2026
- 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