Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (CNH1765305963)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of CNHI'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 CNHI 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 CNHI breach identified under incident ID CNH1765305963.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of CNHI's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cnhi, the number of followers: 4004, the industry type: Newspaper Publishing and the number of employees: 545 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 622 with a difference of -133 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 CNHI and their customers.
On 08 December 2025, CNHI, LLC disclosed Data Breach, Ransomware issues under the banner "CNHI, LLC Data Breach Investigation".
CNHI, LLC experienced a significant data breach between April 27, 2025, and May 17, 2025, where an unauthorized actor, identified as the PLAY ransomware group, gained access to the company’s computer network and exfiltrated sensitive files.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Sensitive personally identifiable information, with nearly 1,283+ records at risk.
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Written notification letters to affected individuals, disclosures to Attorney Generals' offices.
The case underscores how Ongoing (Lawsuit investigation), and recommending next steps like Enroll in free Experian IdentityWorks credit monitoring service, Monitor financial statements for suspicious activity and Place a fraud alert on credit reports, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Written notification letters sent to affected individuals starting December 8, 2025.
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 (70%), supported by evidence indicating infiltrated CNHI’s network between April 27 and May 17, 2025 and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating pLAY ransomware group gained access to the company’s computer network. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials (T1552) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating exfiltrated sensitive files containing PII (e.g., SSNs, financial info). Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration confirmed; PLAY group publicly claimed breach on dark web and Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating pLAY ransomware group exfiltrated files; breach publicly claimed. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating pLAY ransomware group implicated; ransomware strain identified and Data Destruction (T1485) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack threatening organizations existence. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- CNHI Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/cnhi/incident/CNH1765305963
- CNHI CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/cnhi
- CNHI Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/cnh1765305963-cnhi-ransomware-may-2025/
- CNHI CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/cnhi/history
- CNHI CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.claimdepot.com/investigations/cnh-industrial-data-breach-2025
- 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