Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (NAS1770566035)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of NASCAR'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 NASCAR 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 NASCAR breach identified under incident ID NAS1770566035.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of NASCAR's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nascar, the number of followers: 97064, the industry type: Spectator Sports and the number of employees: 2468 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 489 and after the incident was 294 with a difference of -195 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 NASCAR and their customers.
NASCAR recently reported "Medusa Ransomware Gang Claims Breach of NASCAR", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
The Medusa ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group has alleged a breach of NASCAR’s computer systems, claiming to have exfiltrated over 1TB of sensitive data.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Over 1TB of sensitive data.
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 Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (50%), with evidence including breach of NASCAR’s computer systems, and attack vector not specified and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), with evidence including medusa RaaS group alleged breach, and no confirmation from NASCAR. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials (T1552) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating screenshots of internal documents suggest credential misuse and OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with lower confidence (40%), with evidence including 1TB of sensitive data exfiltrated, and employee/sponsor contact details. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), with evidence including 1TB of sensitive data exfiltrated, and financial reports, invoices and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating employee/sponsor contact details, financial reports. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including over 1TB of sensitive data exfiltrated, and dark web leak site and Exfiltration Over Web Service (T1567) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating medusa published screenshots on dark web. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with moderate to high confidence (70%), with evidence including medusa ransomware gang, and $4M ransom demanded and Inhibit System Recovery (T1490) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate confidence (60%), with evidence including medusa RaaS group, and no confirmation of attack by NASCAR and Hide Artifacts (T1564) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating dark web leak site used for ransom demands. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- NASCAR Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/nascar/incident/NAS1770566035
- NASCAR CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/nascar
- NASCAR Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/nas1770566035-nascar-ransomware-april-2025/
- NASCAR CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/nascar/history
- NASCAR CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/medusa-ransomware-hacked-nascar
- 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