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Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (JAC1790872901)

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Rankiteo Incident Impact-127
Company Score Before Incident764 / 1000
Company Score After Incident637 / 1000
Company LinkView Jackson County Sheriff Profile
INCIDENT NUMBERJAC1790872901
Type of Cyber IncidentRansomware
ATTACK VECTOREmail
DATA EXPOSEDSensitive data, including files tied...
INCIDENT DATE26/03/2026
STATUSOngoing

Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis

  • Timeline of Jackson County Sheriff'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 Jackson County Sheriff 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 Jackson County Sheriff breach identified under incident ID JAC1790872901.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Jackson County Sheriff's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jackson-county-sheriff, the number of followers: 48, the industry type: Law Enforcement and the number of employees: 28 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 764 and after the incident was 637 with a difference of -127 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 Jackson County Sheriff and their customers.

On 25 March 2024, Jackson County Sheriff’s Office disclosed Ransomware issues under the banner "Ransomware Attack Disrupts Jackson County Sheriff’s Office Operations".

A ransomware attack last week crippled the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office in Brownstown, Indiana, knocking its entire network offline and forcing critical law enforcement operations to adapt.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Entire network, computers, Wi-Fi, police report filing system, and exposing Sensitive data, including files tied to the county’s sex offender registry.

In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Systems wiped, hardware replaced, infrastructure rebuilding, and began remediation that includes Refusal to pay ransom, external hard drives used for limited restoration, while recovery efforts such as Aim to restore report filing system by next week continue.

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 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment (T1566.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), with evidence including malware likely entered via email, and attack detected the prior week disabled computers. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), with evidence including malware likely entered via email, and may have lain dormant before activating. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task (T1053.005) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating malware may have lain dormant before activating. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including ransomware attack crippled the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, and data encryption confirmed. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating malware may have lain dormant before activating and Indicator Removal: File Deletion (T1070.004) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating systems are being wiped, replacing hardware. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating sensitive data at risk, including sex offender registry files. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.

Initial Access
Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment (80%)
Execution
User Execution: Malicious File (70%)
Persistence
Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task (60%)
Impact
Data Encrypted for Impact (90%)
Defense Evasion
Obfuscated Files or Information (70%)
Indicator Removal: File Deletion (80%)
Exfiltration
Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (50%)

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