Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (TEXDAV1773347117)
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Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of DaVita Kidney Care'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 DaVita Kidney Care 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 DaVita Kidney Care breach identified under incident ID TEXDAV1773347117.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of DaVita Kidney Care's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/davita, the number of followers: 325653, the industry type: Hospitals and Health Care and the number of employees: 38795 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 100 and after the incident was 100 with a difference of 0 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 DaVita Kidney Care and their customers.
Texas Tech University System recently reported "New AI-Generated Malware 'Slopoly' Used in Interlock Ransomware Attacks", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
A recently discovered malware strain, Slopoly, has been linked to a financially motivated threat group tracked as Hive0163, which deployed it in an Interlock ransomware attack.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Compromised servers, and exposing System information, potentially sensitive data.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how teams are taking away lessons such as The incident underscores the growing use of AI in malware development, enabling faster customization and evasion of detection.
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 Phishing: Spearphishing Link (T1566.002) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating attack began with a ClickFix social engineering tactic. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell (T1059.001) with high confidence (95%), supported by evidence indicating slopoly, a PowerShell-based C2 (command-and-control) client and Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task (T1053.005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating maintains persistence via a scheduled task (Runtime Broker). Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task (T1053.005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating maintains persistence via a scheduled task (Runtime Broker) and Create or Modify System Process: Windows Service (T1543.003) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating runs as a SYSTEM-level scheduled task. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating aI-generated malware with unusually structured code and error handling, Masquerading: Match Legitimate Name or Location (T1036.005) with moderate to high confidence (85%), supported by evidence indicating operates from C such as \ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Runtime\, and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating uses Windows Restart Manager to unlock files before encryption. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified System Information Discovery (T1082) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating collects system information via Slopoly malware. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Application Layer Protocol: Web Protocols (T1071.001) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating sends heartbeat beacons every 30 seconds to C2 and Non-Application Layer Protocol (T1095) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating polls for commands every 50 seconds via C2. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating exfiltrating data via Slopoly backdoor for over a week. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (95%), supported by evidence indicating interlock ransomware encrypts files, appends .!NT3RLOCK or .int3R1Ock. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- DaVita Kidney Care Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/davita/incident/TEXDAV1773347117
- DaVita Kidney Care CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/davita
- DaVita Kidney Care Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/texdav1773347117-davita-texas-tech-university-system-ransomware-march-2026/
- DaVita Kidney Care CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/davita/history
- DaVita Kidney Care CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ai-generated-slopoly-malware-used-in-interlock-ransomware-attack/
- 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