Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (BLA1768679224)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Black Talon Security'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 Black Talon Security 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 Black Talon Security breach identified under incident ID BLA1768679224.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Black Talon Security's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blacktalonsecurity, the number of followers: 1791, the industry type: Computer and Network Security and the number of employees: 21 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 749 and after the incident was 428 with a difference of -321 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 Black Talon Security and their customers.
A newly reported cybersecurity incident, "Ukrainian and German Authorities Target Black Basta Ransomware Operatives", has drawn attention.
Ukrainian and German law enforcement have identified two Ukrainian nationals suspected of working for Black Basta, a Russia-linked ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Corporate networks, plus an estimated financial loss of Hundreds of millions in illicit cryptocurrency payments.
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 Brute Force (T1110) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating specialized in breaching protected systems to extract passwords, Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating infiltrate corporate networks using extracted passwords, and Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment (T1566.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating raaS model implies possible phishing for initial access. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force: Password Cracking (T1110.002) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating hash crackers...specialized in breaching protected systems to extract passwords and OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating extract passwords enabling group to infiltrate corporate networks. Under the Lateral Movement tactic, the analysis identified Remote Services: Remote Desktop Protocol (T1021.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating infiltrate corporate networks using extracted passwords and Remote Services: SMB/Windows Admin Shares (T1021.002) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating raaS model implies lateral movement via valid accounts. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (95%), supported by evidence indicating deploy ransomware...data encryption such as Yes. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating raaS model implies data exfiltration for extortion. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating infiltrate corporate networks using extracted passwords and Hide Artifacts: Hidden Window (T1564.003) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating raaS model implies evasion of detection. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Application Layer Protocol: Web Protocols (T1071.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating raaS model implies C2 communication for ransomware deployment. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Black Talon Security Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/blacktalonsecurity/incident/BLA1768679224
- Black Talon Security CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/blacktalonsecurity
- Black Talon Security Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/bla1768679224-black-basta-ransomware-april-2022/
- Black Talon Security CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/blacktalonsecurity/history
- Black Talon Security CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/black-basta-ransomware-hacker-leader.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