Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (INS1764914724)
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Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Instyle Solar'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 Instyle Solar 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 Instyle Solar breach identified under incident ID INS1764914724.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Instyle Solar's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/instyle-solar, the number of followers: 1336, the industry type: Solar Electric Power Generation and the number of employees: 38 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 631 with a difference of -123 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 Instyle Solar and their customers.
On 03 December 2023, Instyle disclosed Ransomware issues under the banner "INC Ransomware Attack on Instyle".
The INC Ransom ransomware operation has allegedly hacked the Australia-based textile wholesaler, Instyle.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing 62 GB.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how Ongoing.
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%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack implies likely use of compromised credentials and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating no specific attack vector mentioned, but common in ransomware incidents. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force (T1110) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating common precursor to ransomware attacks for gaining access and Unsecured Credentials (T1552) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating likely method for initial access in ransomware incidents. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Account Discovery (T1087) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating targeted HR, financial, and customer data suggests reconnaissance and File and Directory Discovery (T1083) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating 62 GB of data exfiltrated implies extensive data discovery. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating 62 GB of data stolen including customer, HR, and financial details. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration confirmed; 62 GB stolen by INC Ransom. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack type implies data encryption for ransom and Data Destruction (T1485) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating potential threat if ransom not paid (common ransomware tactic). These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Instyle Solar Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/instyle-solar/incident/INS1764914724
- Instyle Solar CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/instyle-solar
- Instyle Solar Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/ins1764914724-instyle-solar-ransomware-december-2025/
- Instyle Solar CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/instyle-solar/history
- Instyle Solar CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.cyberdaily.au/security/12977-exclusive-textile-supplier-instyle-listed-by-inc-ransom-hackers
- 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