Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (NAY1776759980)
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Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Nayatel'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 Nayatel 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 Nayatel breach identified under incident ID NAY1776759980.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Nayatel's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nayatel, the number of followers: 195253, the industry type: Telecommunications and the number of employees: 1896 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 766 and after the incident was 748 with a difference of -18 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 Nayatel and their customers.
On 01 February 2026, Bangladesh Navy disclosed Phishing issues under the banner "SideWinder APT Targets South Asian Governments in Sophisticated Phishing Campaign".
The advanced persistent threat (APT) group SideWinder has launched a highly targeted phishing campaign against government and defense organizations in South Asia, including the Bangladesh Navy and Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Email portals (Zimbra), government and defense systems, and exposing Credentials, diplomatic cables.
In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Credential rotation, reporting infrastructure to Cloudflare Trust and Safety.
The case underscores how Ongoing, teams are taking away lessons such as Evolving tactics of APT groups, including session management with rotating CSRF tokens and real-time asset mirroring to evade detection. Importance of OPSEC in phishing kit development, and recommending next steps like Rotate credentials, report phishing infrastructure to hosting providers, implement multi-factor authentication, and enhance monitoring for cloned login portals.
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 Link (T1566.001) with high confidence (95%), with evidence including spearphishing links sent to targeted individuals, and fake PDF viewer and Zimbra clone used to harvest credentials and Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment (T1566.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating blurred diplomatic cable (stolen PDF) used as lure. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious Link (T1204.001) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating victims directed to fake PDF viewer via spearphishing links. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Input Capture: Keylogging (T1056.001) with moderate to high confidence (85%), with evidence including pixel-perfect Zimbra clone to harvest credentials, and double-submission trick to capture passwords and Adversary-in-the-Middle: LLMNR/NBT-NS Poisoning and SMB Relay (T1557.001) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating reverse-proxied assets from real Zimbra server (indirect evidence). Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Masquerading: Match Legitimate Name or Location (T1036.005) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including fake Chrome PDF viewer (PDF.js v2.16.105), and zimbra login clone mirrors legitimate portal, Use Alternate Authentication Material: Web Session Cookie (T1550.004) with moderate to high confidence (70%), with evidence including forced session expiration error to prompt re-login, and rotating CSRF tokens, and Stage Capabilities: Upload Malware (T1608.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating phishing kit (Z2FA_LTS) hosted on Cloudflare Workers. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), with evidence including stolen diplomatic cables used as lures, and credentials harvested from cloned login portal and Email Collection: Remote Email Collection (T1114.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating targeted Zimbra webmail portals (mail.navy.mil.bd). Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), with evidence including credentials harvested via phishing kit (Z2FA_LTS), and high-value targets (government/defense). Under the Reconnaissance tactic, the analysis identified Active Scanning: Vulnerability Scanning (T1595.002) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating pixel-perfect Zimbra clone suggests prior reconnaissance of target portals and Gather Victim Identity Information: Credentials (T1589.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating targeted spearphishing with diplomatic cables (high-value lures). These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Nayatel Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/nayatel/incident/NAY1776759980
- Nayatel CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/nayatel
- Nayatel Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/nay1776759980-nayatel-cyber-attack-february-2026/
- Nayatel CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/nayatel/history
- Nayatel CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://cybersecuritynews.com/sidewinder-uses-fake-chrome-pdf-viewer-and-zimbra-clone/
- 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