Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (ROC1764763001)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth'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 Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth 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 Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth breach identified under incident ID ROC1764763001.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rockefeller-center-dartmouth, the number of followers: 1834, the industry type: Higher Education and the number of employees: 51 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 769 and after the incident was 669 with a difference of -100 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 Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth and their customers.
On 09 August 2025, Dartmouth College disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "Dartmouth College Data Breach via Zero-Day Exploit in Oracle E-Business Suite".
Dartmouth College notified over 35,000 individuals that their personal information was stolen in a cyberattack exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite software.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Oracle E-Business Suite (payroll, HR, financial operations), and exposing Personal information, with nearly 35,000+ records at risk.
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Official notification to affected individuals.
The case underscores how with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Steps to protect personal information provided 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%), supported by evidence indicating exploited a previously unknown security flaw (zero-day vulnerability) in Oracle E-Business Suite. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating attackers gained unauthorized access to the system and downloaded files containing sensitive personal data and Automated Exfiltration (T1020) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration confirmed; Cl0p group known for automated data theft. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Credential Access (T1212) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating zero-day exploit in Oracle E-Business Suite (payroll, HR, financial operations) may have exposed credentials. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Defense Evasion (T1211) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating exploited zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-61882) not publicly known at time of attack and Indicator Removal (T1066) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating cl0p group known for removing traces of intrusion post-exfiltration. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/rockefeller-center-dartmouth/incident/ROC1764763001
- Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/rockefeller-center-dartmouth
- Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/roc1764763001-nelson-a-rockefeller-center-for-public-policy-at-dartmouth-breach-august-2025/
- Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/rockefeller-center-dartmouth/history
- Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.compassvermont.com/p/dartmouth-data-breach-what-vermont
- 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