Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (KEL1780440089)

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the KELA - Cyber Threat Intelligence breach identified under incident ID KEL1780440089.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of KELA - Cyber Threat Intelligence's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kela-cyber, the number of followers: 14433, the industry type: Computer and Network Security and the number of employees: 156 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 651 and after the incident was 486 with a difference of -165 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 KELA - Cyber Threat Intelligence and their customers.

A newly reported cybersecurity incident, "The Gentlemen Ransomware Group Rises to Global Threat #2, Accounting for 10% of Attacks in 2024", has drawn attention.

A new report from cybersecurity firm KELA reveals that *The Gentlemen* has rapidly ascended to become the world’s second-most prolific ransomware group, responsible for 10% of all global ransomware victims this year.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Manufacturing systems and Operational technology (OT) environments, and exposing Corporate mailboxes, plant-floor robotics data.

Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.

The case underscores how teams are taking away lessons such as The evolving threat landscape requires accelerated adoption of autonomous patching and enhanced security measures for legacy and OT systems to counter sophisticated ransomware groups like *The Gentlemen*, and recommending next steps like Accelerate autonomous patching adoption, Enhance monitoring of OT environments and Improve security for legacy infrastructure.

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.