Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (SOU1772052995)
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Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Southwest Care Center (SCC)'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 Southwest Care Center (SCC) 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 Southwest Care Center (SCC) breach identified under incident ID SOU1772052995.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Southwest Care Center (SCC)'s information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/southwest-care-center, the number of followers: 815, the industry type: Medical Practices and the number of employees: 92 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 693 and after the incident was 571 with a difference of -122 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 Southwest Care Center (SCC) and their customers.
On 18 December 2025, Southwest Care Center disclosed Ransomware issues under the banner "Southwest Care Center Hit by MEDUSA Ransomware Attack, Exposing Sensitive Patient Data".
On June 3, 2025, Southwest Care Center, a nonprofit healthcare provider in New Mexico, detected a cybersecurity incident that prompted an immediate response.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing 143.9 GB of data.
In response, teams activated the incident response plan, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Systems secured, and stakeholders are being briefed through Notice published on website, affected individuals notified.
The case underscores how Concluded, and recommending next steps like Offering 12 months of complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services to affected individuals, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Dedicated call center established for inquiries.
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 (50%), supported by evidence indicating detected a cybersecurity incident that prompted an immediate response and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access...assess the scope of unauthorized access. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating mEDUSA ransomware group claimed responsibility. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access...assess the scope of unauthorized access. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access...assess the scope of unauthorized access. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating mEDUSA ransomware group claimed responsibility and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating engaged third-party forensic experts to secure its systems. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating sensitive personal and protected health information (PHI) exposed and Unsecured Credentials: Credentials In Files (T1552.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating 143.9 GB of data exfiltrated from the organization. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Account Discovery (T1087) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating names and other personally identifiable data exposed and Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating 143.9 GB of data exfiltrated from the organization. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating 143.9 GB of data exfiltrated...PHI and PII exposed and Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating sensitive personal and protected health information (PHI). Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating mEDUSA ransomware group...exfiltrated 143.9 GB of data and Exfiltration Over Web Service (T1567) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating posting on the dark web...threatened to publish stolen info. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating mEDUSA ransomware group claimed responsibility and Defacement (T1491) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating threatened to publish the stolen information on the dark web. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Southwest Care Center (SCC) Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/southwest-care-center/incident/SOU1772052995
- Southwest Care Center (SCC) CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/southwest-care-center
- Southwest Care Center (SCC) Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/sou1772052995-southwest-care-center-ransomware-june-2025/
- Southwest Care Center (SCC) CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/southwest-care-center/history
- Southwest Care Center (SCC) CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.claimdepot.com/data-breach/southwest-care-center-2026
- 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