Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (PAT1775169212)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Patriot EMS'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 Patriot EMS 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 Patriot EMS breach identified under incident ID PAT1775169212.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Patriot EMS's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/patriot-ems, the number of followers: 82, the industry type: Hospitals and Health Care and the number of employees: 53 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 740 with a difference of -26 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 Patriot EMS and their customers.
On 31 March 2026, Patriot Regional Emergency Communications Center (PRECC) disclosed Cyber Attack issues under the banner "Cyber Attack Disrupts Emergency Communications for Massachusetts Towns".
A cyber attack discovered on Tuesday, March 31, 2026, has disrupted non-emergency and business phone lines for multiple public safety departments and the Patriot Regional Emergency Communications Center (PRECC), which serves towns in Massachusetts.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Non-emergency and business phone lines for police, fire, and EMS communications, and exposing No evidence of private user data compromise.
In response, teams activated the incident response plan, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Disabled all connections to PRECC (Dunstable), alternate non-emergency number provided, while recovery efforts such as Restoration of services underway continue, and stakeholders are being briefed through Social media updates, alternate non-emergency number provided.
The case underscores how Ongoing, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Alternate non-emergency number provided (978-433-2671), social media updates.
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 disrupted non-emergency and business phone lines for PRECC and External Remote Services (T1133) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating pRECC coordinates emergency communications for the region. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Endpoint Denial of Service (T1499) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating disrupted non-emergency and business phone lines for police, fire, and EMS and Defacement (T1491) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating no evidence of private user data compromise. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating dunstable disabled all connections to PRECC upon learning of the breach. Under the Lateral Movement tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation of Remote Services (T1210) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating multiple public safety departments and PRECC affected. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Patriot EMS Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/patriot-ems/incident/PAT1775169212
- Patriot EMS CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/patriot-ems
- Patriot EMS Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/pat1775169212-patriot-regional-emergency-communications-center-cyber-attack-march-2026/
- Patriot EMS CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/patriot-ems/history
- Patriot EMS CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.govtech.com/security/massachusetts-towns-impacted-by-emergency-comms-cyber-attack
- 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