Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (INS1770616456)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Insight Partners, LLC's Ransomware 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 Insight Partners, 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 Insight Partners, LLC breach identified under incident ID INS1770616456.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Insight Partners, LLC's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/insightpartnersllc, the number of followers: 15, the industry type: Business Consulting and Services and the number of employees: 1 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 752 and after the incident was 608 with a difference of -144 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 Insight Partners, LLC and their customers.
On 16 January 2025, Insight Partners disclosed ransomware issues under the banner "Insight Partners Hit by Months-Long Ransomware Attack, Exposing Data of 12,600 Individuals".
Insight Partners, a $90 billion venture capital firm backing cybersecurity leaders like Wiz and Databricks, confirmed a ransomware attack that compromised sensitive data from over 12,600 individuals.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting human resources systems, and exposing banking and tax records, personal details of current and former employees, data on limited partners (private, high-net-worth investors), with nearly 12,600 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 Phishing (T1566) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating insight attributed the breach to a social engineering attack and Phishing: Spearphishing Link (T1566.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating hackers manipulated employees into granting access. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating attackers infiltrated HR systems in mid-October 2024, spending months exfiltrating data. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Credentials from Password Stores (T1555) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating access to HR systems implies credential compromise and Brute Force (T1110) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating prolonged access suggests possible credential testing. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Account Discovery (T1087) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating targeted limited partners and high-net-worth investors and File and Directory Discovery (T1083) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating exfiltrated banking, tax records, and personal details. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating compromised banking and tax records, personal details and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating accessed HR systems containing sensitive data. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration confirmed over months-long period and Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating prolonged exfiltration suggests cloud storage use. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware deployed on January 16, 2025 and Data Destruction (T1485) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack may include data destruction. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating months-long undetected access via compromised credentials and Hide Artifacts (T1564) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating stealthy operation between October 2024 and January 2025. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Insight Partners, LLC Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/insightpartnersllc/incident/INS1770616456
- Insight Partners, LLC CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/insightpartnersllc
- Insight Partners, LLC Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/ins1770616456-insight-partners-ransomware-january-2025/
- Insight Partners, LLC CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/insightpartnersllc/history
- Insight Partners, LLC CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/insight-partners-confirms-ransomware-hit-12-600-people
- 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