Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (CITCITCIT1776690096)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of City of Gresham'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 City of Gresham 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 City of Gresham breach identified under incident ID CITCITCIT1776690096.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of City of Gresham's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/city-of-gresham, the number of followers: 2082, the industry type: Government Administration and the number of employees: 406 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 762 and after the incident was 495 with a difference of -267 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 City of Gresham and their customers.
City of Greenville, North Carolina recently reported "Iranian National Pleads Guilty in U.S. Ransomware Scheme Targeting Cities, Causing Millions in Damages", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
A 37-year-old Iranian national, Sina Gholinejad, pleaded guilty to charges tied to a ransomware and extortion operation that disrupted city governments and businesses across the U.S.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting City government networks, critical services (property taxes, water bills, parking citations), and exposing Exfiltrated data to private servers, plus an estimated financial loss of $19 million (Baltimore alone).
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how Guilty plea entered, sentencing scheduled for August.
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 (60%), supported by evidence indicating attackers infiltrated victim networks (January 2019) and External Remote Services (T1133) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating network infiltration as attack vector. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating deployed the *RobbinHood* ransomware variant. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating infiltrated victim networks (implied access maintenance). Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating encrypted files on targeted networks (system-level access). Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating *RobbinHood* ransomware variant (malicious encryption) and Execution Guardrails (T1480) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware deployed selectively on networks. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating infiltrated victim networks (implied credential theft). Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified File and Directory Discovery (T1083) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating encrypted files on targeted networks (targeted discovery). Under the Lateral Movement tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation of Remote Services (T1210) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating disrupted city governments across the U.S. (multi-network access). Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating exfiltrating data to private servers under their control. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Application Layer Protocol (T1071) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltrated to private servers (C2 communication). Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating exfiltrating data to private servers under their control. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating *RobbinHood* ransomware variant to encrypt files and Service Stop (T1489) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating crippling critical services for months (Baltimore). These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- City of Gresham Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/city-of-gresham/incident/CITCITCIT1776690096
- City of Gresham CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/city-of-gresham
- City of Gresham Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/citcitcit1776690096-city-of-gresham-city-of-yonkers-new-york-city-of-greenville-north-carolina-ransomware-may-2025/
- City of Gresham CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/city-of-gresham/history
- City of Gresham CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://thedailyrecord.com/2025/05/27/iranian-guilty-plea-baltimore-ransomware-attacks/
- 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