Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (GAR1764792990)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of NYA'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 NYA 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 NYA breach identified under incident ID GAR1764792990.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of NYA's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gardaworld-crisis24, the number of followers: 2728, the industry type: Security and Investigations and the number of employees: 93 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 758 and after the incident was 692 with a difference of -66 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 NYA and their customers.
Cuyahoga County recently reported "Cuyahoga County ReadyNotify Data Breach", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
Cuyahoga County residents who subscribe to ReadyNotify alerts are encouraged to change their passwords following a national data breach.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting CodeRED alert platform operated by Crisis24, and exposing Subscriber information including names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and specific alert lists users subscribe to.
In response, and began remediation that includes Urging subscribers to change passwords and enable multi-factor authentication, and stakeholders are being briefed through Public advisory to subscribers.
The case underscores how and recommending next steps like Change passwords, enable multi-factor authentication, monitor bank and credit accounts for suspicious activity, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Urging subscribers to take precautions.
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 to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating breach affected CodeRED, an alert platform operated by Crisis24 and Trusted Relationship (T1199) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating county and local municipalities use CodeRED for alerts. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force (T1110) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating urging subscribers to change passwords (implied compromise) and Compromise Accounts (T1586) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating subscriber information may be compromised. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating subscriber information including names, addresses, phone numbers and Automated Exfiltration (T1020) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating national data breach (suggests large-scale exfiltration). Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating data breach with potential identity theft risk and Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with lower confidence (20%), supported by evidence indicating no evidence of ransomware or encryption in incident. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- NYA Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/gardaworld-crisis24/incident/GAR1764792990
- NYA CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/gardaworld-crisis24
- NYA Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/gar1764792990-nya-breach-december-2025/
- NYA CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/gardaworld-crisis24/history
- NYA CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.cleveland.com/news/2025/12/cuyahoga-county-urges-readynotify-users-to-change-passwords-after-data-breach.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