Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (OFF1764706785)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Office of the Executive Vice President's Breach 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 Office of the Executive Vice President 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 Office of the Executive Vice President breach identified under incident ID OFF1764706785.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Office of the Executive Vice President's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/office-of-the-executive-vice-president-university-of-pennsylvania, the number of followers: 851, the industry type: Higher Education and the number of employees: 23 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 629 and after the incident was 551 with a difference of -78 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 Office of the Executive Vice President and their customers.
On 01 December 2023, University of Pennsylvania disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Oracle E-Business Suite Cybersecurity Breach at University of Pennsylvania".
Penn is investigating a cybersecurity breach of its Oracle E-Business Suite servers that compromised the personal information of University-affiliated individuals across multiple states.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Oracle E-Business Suite servers, and exposing Personal information, with nearly 1488 (Maine residents only, total unknown) records at risk.
In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Applied Oracle-issued patches to resolve the vulnerability, and stakeholders are being briefed through Letters filed with attorneys general, notification to affected individuals.
The case underscores how Ongoing, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Notification letters sent to affected individuals.
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 high confidence (95%), with evidence including exploited the business software Penn uses to manage internal operations, and previously unknown security vulnerability in Oracle’s system. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), with evidence including some data from Penn’s Oracle EBS had been obtained without authorization, and data exfiltration such as Yes. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Steal Application Access Token (T1528) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating exploitation of Oracle E-Business Suite may involve stolen session tokens or credentials. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Defense Evasion (T1211) with moderate to high confidence (85%), with evidence including previously unknown security vulnerability in Oracle’s system, and exploited...widely exploited Oracle E-Business Suite incident and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating vulnerability exploited before patches were applied. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Office of the Executive Vice President Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/office-of-the-executive-vice-president-university-of-pennsylvania/incident/OFF1764706785
- Office of the Executive Vice President CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/office-of-the-executive-vice-president-university-of-pennsylvania
- Office of the Executive Vice President Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/off1764706785-office-of-the-executive-vice-president-breach-december-2025/
- Office of the Executive Vice President CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/office-of-the-executive-vice-president-university-of-pennsylvania/history
- Office of the Executive Vice President CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.thedp.com/article/2025/12/penn-cybersecurity-breach-oracle-business-hack
- 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