Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (NCC1765123074)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of NCC Group North America'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 NCC Group North America 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 NCC Group North America breach identified under incident ID NCC1765123074.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of NCC Group North America's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nccgroup-north-america, the number of followers: 7234, the industry type: Computer and Network Security and the number of employees: 47 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 750 and after the incident was 732 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 NCC Group North America and their customers.
On 24 November 2023, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham disclosed Cyber Attack issues under the banner "Cyber Attack on Three Greater London Councils".
Three neighbouring Greater London councils—London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC), and Westminster City Council—were struck by a cyber attack on 24 November.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Shared systems among the three councils, and exposing Historical data copied and exfiltrated.
In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Ongoing efforts to contain the impact, and began remediation that includes Restarting affected systems and public-facing services.
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 (60%), supported by evidence indicating shared systems among the three councils were affected and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating historical data exfiltrated suggests account compromise. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration confirmed from RBKCs systems and Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating historical data copied and exfiltrated. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force (T1110) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating shared systems suggest possible credential misuse and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration implies account access. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating no encryption or destruction of data occurred and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating disruption to public-facing services. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- NCC Group North America Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/nccgroup-north-america/incident/NCC1765123074
- NCC Group North America CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/nccgroup-north-america
- NCC Group North America Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/ncc1765123074-ncc-group-north-america-cyber-attack-november-2025/
- NCC Group North America CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/nccgroup-north-america/history
- NCC Group North America CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366635852/NCC-supporting-London-councils-gripped-by-cyber-attacks
- 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