Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (LAN1769547450)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Langley Twigg Law'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 Langley Twigg Law 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 Langley Twigg Law breach identified under incident ID LAN1769547450.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Langley Twigg Law's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/langley-twigg-law, the number of followers: 56, the industry type: Law Practice and the number of employees: 20 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 645 with a difference of -109 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 Langley Twigg Law and their customers.
On 25 January 2026, Langley Twigg Law disclosed Ransomware issues under the banner "Langley Twigg Law Hit by Anubis Ransomware Attack, Client and Employee Data Exposed".
A New Zealand-based law firm, Langley Twigg Law in Napier, is investigating a cybersecurity breach after the Anubis ransomware group claimed responsibility for a malicious attack that compromised a portion of its data.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Internal operational documents, client files, financial records, employee compensation data, passport scans, property transaction records, settlement statements.
In response, teams activated the incident response plan, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Disconnected systems from the internet, restored from backups, while recovery efforts such as Systems restored from backups continue, and stakeholders are being briefed through Notified Privacy Commissioner, planned direct contact with impacted clients.
The case underscores how Ongoing, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Planned direct contact with impacted clients.
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 confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating attack employed a novel method, allowing threat actors to access and Valid Accounts (T1078) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized activity on its network detected. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating anubis ransomware group claimed responsibility for a malicious attack. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Account Manipulation (T1098) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating novel method...access and exfiltrate data before systems were restored. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating access and exfiltrate data...passport scans, client documents. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating firm’s security monitoring software flagged unauthorized activity and Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating novel method...bypassing existing cybersecurity protections. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating employee compensation data, passport scans compromised and Unsecured Credentials: Credentials In Files (T1552.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating financial records, client documents exposed. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified File and Directory Discovery (T1083) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating internal operational documents and client files compromised and Account Discovery (T1087) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating passport details of employees and clients published. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating financial records, passport scans, property transaction records exfiltrated and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating client documents, settlement statements compromised. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration confirmed, Anubis posted details on darknet leak site and Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating anubis ransomware group known for detailed leak posts. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack, systems restored from backups and Defacement: Internal Defacement (T1491.001) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating anubis published passport details on darknet leak site. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Langley Twigg Law Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/langley-twigg-law/incident/LAN1769547450
- Langley Twigg Law CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/langley-twigg-law
- Langley Twigg Law Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/lan1769547450-langley-twigg-law-ransomware-february-2025/
- Langley Twigg Law CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/langley-twigg-law/history
- Langley Twigg Law CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.cyberdaily.au/security/13139-exclusive-nz-law-firm-investigating-cyber-attack-as-hackers-share-employee-client-passport-scans
- 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