Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (QIL1768636703)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of QILIN'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 QILIN 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 QILIN breach identified under incident ID QIL1768636703.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of QILIN's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qilin, the number of followers: 0, the industry type: Software Development and the number of employees: 5 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 795 and after the incident was 350 with a difference of -445 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 QILIN and their customers.
A newly reported cybersecurity incident, "Ransomware Payments Hit Record Low in Q3 2025", has drawn attention.
In Q3 2025, only 23% of ransomware victims paid attackers—the lowest rate ever recorded—continuing a six-year decline in payment rates, according to cybersecurity firm Coveware.
The disruption is felt across the environment, plus an estimated financial loss of $376,941 (average ransom payment in Q3 2025).
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how teams are taking away lessons such as Enterprises are increasingly refusing to pay ransoms, recognizing that payments rarely prevent data leaks. Cyber response teams and privacy attorneys now discourage payments to avoid sustaining the extortion economy. Attackers are shifting to high-volume, low-demand strategies targeting mid-sized firms with lower resilience, and recommending next steps like Improve remote access security, patch software vulnerabilities, enforce strong credential hygiene, enhance configuration management, and educate employees on social engineering risks. Organizations should also prepare for ransomware attacks by implementing robust incident response plans and backup strategies.
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 External Remote Services (T1133) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating remote access compromise (accounting for over half of incidents), Phishing (T1566) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating phishing listed as a key attack vector, Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating unpatched software vulnerabilities exploited, and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating weak credentials and poor configuration hygiene as key vectors. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware encryption and data exfiltration reported. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force (T1110) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating weak credentials listed as a key attack vector and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating remote access compromise via weak credentials. Under the Lateral Movement tactic, the analysis identified Remote Services: Remote Desktop Protocol (T1021.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating remote access compromise as primary entry point. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration-only attacks reported (19% payment rate). Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration confirmed in ransomware attacks. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (95%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware encryption reported in attacks and Inhibit System Recovery (T1490) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attacks targeting system availability. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating use of weak credentials to evade detection and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating poor configuration hygiene as a key vector. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- QILIN Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/qilin/incident/QIL1768636703
- QILIN CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/qilin
- QILIN Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/qil1768636703-qilin-ransomware-june-2024/
- QILIN CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/qilin/history
- QILIN CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://securityaffairs.com/183941/cyber-crime/ransomware-payments-hit-record-low-only-23-pay-in-q3-2025.html
- 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