Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (MCDIBENISDEC1768955534)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Deccan Founders'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 Deccan Founders 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 Deccan Founders breach identified under incident ID MCDIBENISDEC1768955534.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Deccan Founders's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/deccan-founders, the number of followers: 16603, the industry type: Technology, Information and Media and the number of employees: 3 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 751 and after the incident was 652 with a difference of -99 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 Deccan Founders and their customers.
On 20 January 2026, McDonald’s India disclosed Ransomware issues under the banner "Everest Ransomware Group Claims Breach of McDonald’s India".
The Everest ransomware group has claimed responsibility for a breach of McDonald’s India, the fast-food giant’s Indian subsidiary, allegedly exfiltrating 861 GB of customer data and internal documents.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing 861 GB.
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 breach of McDonald’s India, allegedly exfiltrating 861 GB of data and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating store-level data, including manager names and company email addresses. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating everest ransomware group claimed responsibility for the breach. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials: Credentials In Files (T1552.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating financial reports, audit trails, ERP migration files compromised and OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating store-level data includes manager names and company email addresses. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified File and Directory Discovery (T1083) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating structured directories with month-by-month accounting records, Investor Info and Account Discovery: Domain Account (T1087.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating contact Database with investor and business partner details. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating 861 GB of customer data and internal documents allegedly exfiltrated and Data from Network Shared Drive (T1039) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating financial reports, audit trails, ERP migration files accessed. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating 861 GB of data allegedly stolen and posted on dark web leak site and Exfiltration Over Web Service: Exfiltration to Cloud Storage (T1567.002) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating data breach involving large-scale exfiltration (861 GB). Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating everest ransomware group claimed responsibility for the breach and Defacement: Internal Defacement (T1491.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating screenshots of financial reports and internal docs posted on leak site. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Application Layer Protocol: Web Protocols (T1071.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltrated via dark web leak site (likely C2 channel). These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Deccan Founders Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/deccan-founders/incident/MCDIBENISDEC1768955534
- Deccan Founders CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/deccan-founders
- Deccan Founders Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/mcdibenisdec1768955534-mcdonalds-india-iberia-airlines-nissan-under-armour-ransomware-june-2023/
- Deccan Founders CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/deccan-founders/history
- Deccan Founders CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://hackread.com/everest-ransomware-mcdonalds-india-breach-customer-data/
- 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