Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (DAVCAECHAPOWKASFILMARSOLNAS1770898846)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of File Transfer Consulting, LLC'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 File Transfer Consulting, LLC 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 File Transfer Consulting, LLC breach identified under incident ID DAVCAECHAPOWKASFILMARSOLNAS1770898846.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of File Transfer Consulting, LLC's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/file-transfer-consulting-llc, the number of followers: 115, the industry type: Information Technology & Services 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 753 and after the incident was 702 with a difference of -51 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 File Transfer Consulting, LLC and their customers.
PowerSchool recently reported "Ransomware Trends and High-Profile Attacks (2024-2025)", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
Ransomware remains a critical threat to governments, businesses, and critical infrastructure, disrupting healthcare, fuel distribution, retail, and identity security.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Healthcare, Fuel distribution and Retail, and exposing 62M students and 9.5M teachers (PowerSchool), 5.6M patient records (Yale New Haven Health) and 1TB of data (NASCAR), with nearly ['62M', '9.5M', '5.6M', '1TB', '2.7M', '193M', '16.6M'] records at risk.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
Overall, the incident is a reminder of why proactive monitoring and strong governance matter.
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 Supply Chain Compromise (T1195) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating supply Chain Attacks – Threat actors target software vendors (e.g., SolarWinds, Kaseya, MoveIt Transfer), Phishing (T1566) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating phishing remains a primary infection vector; AI enhances social engineering lures, and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating exploiting Unpatched Systems – Most ransomware exploits known flaws in outdated software. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution (T1204) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating phishing remains a primary infection vector for ransomware execution and Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) tools often include scripting for automation. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Create Account (T1136) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating supply chain attacks may establish backdoors for persistence (e.g., SolarWinds hack). Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating exploiting unpatched systems often leads to privilege escalation. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware often uses encryption to evade detection (e.g., LockBit 5.0) and Impair Defenses (T1562) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating aI-driven attacks may disable security tools for evasion. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force (T1110) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating phishing and AI-driven attacks may capture credentials for access and Credentials from Password Stores (T1555) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating supply chain attacks may access stored credentials (e.g., SolarWinds). Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Account Discovery (T1087) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware groups like LockBit 5.0 target high-value accounts and File and Directory Discovery (T1083) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration (e.g., 1TB from NASCAR) requires file discovery. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating 62M student records, 193M healthcare victims data compromised and Data from Network Shared Drive (T1039) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating supply chain attacks (e.g., MoveIt Transfer) target shared drives. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Application Layer Protocol (T1071) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware groups use private negotiation portals (e.g., LockBit 5.0). Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating 1TB of data stolen (NASCAR), 193M victims (Change Healthcare) and Exfiltration Over Web Service (T1567) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration confirmed in multiple incidents (e.g., DaVita, PowerSchool). Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware strains (e.g., Clop, Medusa) encrypt data for extortion, Defacement (T1491) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating triple extortion tactics may include public shaming (e.g., Vice Society), and Service Stop (T1489) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating disrupted loan services (LoanDepot), 90% profit drop (Marks & Spencer). These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- File Transfer Consulting, LLC Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/file-transfer-consulting-llc/incident/DAVCAECHAPOWKASFILMARSOLNAS1770898846
- File Transfer Consulting, LLC CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/file-transfer-consulting-llc
- File Transfer Consulting, LLC Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/davcaechapowkasfilmarsolnas1770898846-solarwinds-kaseya-moveit-transfer-powerschool-davita-nascar-marks-spencer-caesars-entertainment-change-healthcare-cyber-attack-december-2024/
- File Transfer Consulting, LLC CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/file-transfer-consulting-llc/history
- File Transfer Consulting, LLC CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/feature/Ransomware-trends-statistics-and-facts
- 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