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Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (EMB1774564082)

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Rankiteo Incident Impact-18
Company Score Before Incident755 / 1000
Company Score After Incident737 / 1000
Company LinkView Embark Studios Profile
INCIDENT NUMBEREMB1774564082
Type of Cyber IncidentCyber Attack
ATTACK VECTORDistributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
DATA EXPOSEDNA
INCIDENT DATE29/01/2026
STATUSOngoing

Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis

  • Timeline of Embark Studios's Cyber Attack 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 Embark Studios 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 Embark Studios breach identified under incident ID EMB1774564082.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Embark Studios's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/embark-studios-ab, the number of followers: 37756, the industry type: Computer Games and the number of employees: 375 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 737 with a difference of -18 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 Embark Studios and their customers.

Embark Studios recently reported "ARC Raiders and The Finals Hit by Coordinated DDoS Attacks Disrupting Gameplay", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.

Embark Studios, the developer behind the popular free-to-play shooter ARC Raiders and The Finals, has been targeted by a series of extensive and coordinated DDoS attacks, severely disrupting gameplay for thousands of players.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Game servers for ARC Raiders and The Finals.

In response, teams activated the incident response plan, and stakeholders are being briefed through Updates provided via Discord and community channels.

The case underscores how Ongoing, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Updates provided to players via Discord and community channels.

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 Impact tactic, the analysis identified Network Denial of Service (T1498) with high confidence (95%), with evidence including extensive and coordinated DDoS attacks, widespread server instability, and connection drops, rubber-banding, match disconnections and Endpoint Denial of Service (T1499) with moderate to high confidence (80%), with evidence including players unable to rejoin or complete sessions, and lag-induced deaths and disconnections. Under the Initial Access tactic, the analysis identified Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating dDoS attacks targeting game servers for ARC Raiders and The Finals. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.

Impact
Network Denial of Service (95%)
Endpoint Denial of Service (80%)
Initial Access
Exploit Public-Facing Application (70%)

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