Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (EME1764849529)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Emergency Communications Network's Breach 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 Emergency Communications Network 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 Emergency Communications Network breach identified under incident ID EME1764849529.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Emergency Communications Network's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/emergency-communications-network-llc, the number of followers: 1020, the industry type: IT Services and IT Consulting and the number of employees: 56 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 688 with a difference of -63 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 Emergency Communications Network and their customers.
City of Bradenton recently reported "CodeRED Emergency Alert System Cyberattack", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
CodeRED, an emergency alert system used by the city of Bradenton, experienced a cyberattack during which personal information of users was breached.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting CodeRED emergency alert system, and exposing Personal information (names, addresses, contact information, account passwords).
In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like CodeRED platform taken offline nationwide, and began remediation that includes Transitioned clients to CodeRED by Crisis24 system, and stakeholders are being briefed through News release, social media, website updates, and email alerts.
The case underscores how and recommending next steps like Residents who subscribed to CodeRED before March 31, 2024, should change passwords for other platforms if they used similar or identical passwords, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Residents who subscribed to CodeRED before March 31, 2024, should change passwords for other platforms if they used similar or identical passwords. Subscribers after March 31, 2024, do not need to take action.
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 Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (70%), with evidence including account passwords were breached, and residents advised to change passwords to avoid hacking attempts and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (60%), with evidence including codeRED platform used by Bradenton faces cyberattack, and codeRED platform taken offline nationwide. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force (T1110) with moderate confidence (50%), with evidence including account passwords were breached, and residents advised to change passwords and Credentials from Password Stores (T1555) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating personal information of users was breached including account passwords. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate confidence (60%), with evidence including personal information of users was breached, and data compromised such as names, addresses, contact information, account passwords. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Service Stop (T1489) with moderate to high confidence (80%), with evidence including codeRED platform taken offline nationwide, and transitioned to CodeRED by Crisis24 system. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Emergency Communications Network Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/emergency-communications-network-llc/incident/EME1764849529
- Emergency Communications Network CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/emergency-communications-network-llc
- Emergency Communications Network Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/eme1764849529-emergency-communications-network-breach-march-2025/
- Emergency Communications Network CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/emergency-communications-network-llc/history
- Emergency Communications Network CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.bradenton.com/news/local/article313287301.html
- 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