Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (FIR1765865190)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of First Palmetto Bank'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 First Palmetto Bank 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 First Palmetto Bank breach identified under incident ID FIR1765865190.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of First Palmetto Bank's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/first-palmetto-bank, the number of followers: 1495, the industry type: Banking and the number of employees: 135 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 754 and after the incident was 687 with a difference of -67 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 First Palmetto Bank and their customers.
On 13 June 2025, The Citizens Bank disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "The Citizens Bank Data Breach".
In June 2025, The Citizens Bank discovered a data breach that put sensitive customer information at risk.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Email environment, and exposing Sensitive personally identifiable information.
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Customer advisories issued.
The case underscores how Ongoing, and recommending next steps like Monitor account statements and credit reports, Place a fraud alert on credit file and Consider a credit freeze, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Yes.
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 (T1566) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating suspicious activity was identified in the bank’s email environment and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to certain files occurred in email environment. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials: Email Accounts (T1552.008) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating suspicious activity was identified in the bank’s email environment. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating certain files were or may have been accessed without authorization and Email Collection (T1114) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating suspicious activity was identified in the bank’s email environment. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol (T1048) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating exposure of sensitive data (SSN, financial details, medical info) and Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to files between June 12 and June 14, 2025. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating no ransomware strain confirmed, but data exposure implies impact and Data Manipulation: Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to files may imply manipulation risk. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- First Palmetto Bank Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/first-palmetto-bank/incident/FIR1765865190
- First Palmetto Bank CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/first-palmetto-bank
- First Palmetto Bank Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/fir1765865190-first-palmetto-bank-breach-june-2025/
- First Palmetto Bank CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/first-palmetto-bank/history
- First Palmetto Bank CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.claimdepot.com/investigations/the-citizens-bank-data-breach-2025
- 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