Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (MON1776543857)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks's Cyber Attack 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 Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks 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 Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks breach identified under incident ID MON1776543857.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/montanafwp, the number of followers: 2909, the industry type: Government Administration and the number of employees: 344 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 762 and after the incident was 735 with a difference of -27 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 Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks and their customers.
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) recently reported "Cyberattack Disrupts Montana Fish and Wildlife Services", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
A recent cyberattack has impacted operations at Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP), disrupting critical services and prompting an ongoing investigation.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Licensing systems, hunting and fishing permit processing, public-facing services, and exposing No sensitive personal or financial data compromised.
In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Some internal systems taken offline as a precaution, while recovery efforts such as Manual workarounds implemented continue.
The case underscores how Ongoing, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Further updates are expected as the investigation progresses.
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 (60%), supported by evidence indicating targeted the agency’s digital infrastructure, leading to temporary outages and External Remote Services (T1133) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating disrupting critical services and public-facing services. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Service Stop (T1489) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating temporary outages in licensing systems, hunting and fishing permit processing and Endpoint Denial of Service (T1499) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating disrupting critical services and prompting an ongoing investigation. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating some internal systems remain offline as a precaution. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating no sensitive personal or financial data compromised (implied no exfiltration). These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/montanafwp/incident/MON1776543857
- Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/montanafwp
- Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/mon1776543857-montana-fish-wildlife-parks-cyber-attack-april-2026/
- Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/montanafwp/history
- Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.kxlf.com/videos/news/montana-politics/judge-lets-investigation-into-data-breach-affecting-blue-cross-blue-shield-members-move-forward
- 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