Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (FREITASPANAV1774060009)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Spanish Navy'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 Spanish Navy 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 Spanish Navy breach identified under incident ID FREITASPANAV1774060009.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Spanish Navy's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/spanish-navy, the number of followers: 0, the industry type: Defense and Space Manufacturing and the number of employees: 241 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 820 and after the incident was 792 with a difference of -28 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 Spanish Navy and their customers.
On 13 March 2026, French Naval Group (Charles de Gaulle Carrier Group) disclosed Data Exposure issues under the banner "French Naval Group’s Location Exposed via Fitness App Data".
A security lapse involving a popular fitness app revealed the precise location of France’s Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier and its multinational naval group in the Eastern Mediterranean.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Location data of military assets.
In response, and began remediation that includes Corrective measures to be implemented if report is verified, and stakeholders are being briefed through French Navy spokesperson confirmed the violation of security protocols.
The case underscores how Ongoing, teams are taking away lessons such as Reinforcement of security protocols regarding the use of fitness apps with public location sharing by military personnel, and recommending next steps like Review and enforce stricter policies on the use of fitness apps with default public settings by military personnel. Consider restrictions on apps with foreign ownership for government and military use.
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 Phishing: Spearphishing Link (T1566.001) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating default public location sharing settings in fitness app. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating junior officer’s use of the app to log a run on the ship’s deck and Automated Collection (T1119) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating publicly accessible location data from fitness app. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating publicly accessible location data exposed group’s position and Data from Cloud Storage (T1530) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating fitness app with 195 million users and default public sharing. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Endpoint Denial of Service: Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating potential compromise of naval groups operational security and Financial Theft (T1657) with lower confidence (20%), supported by evidence indicating negative impact on French Navys security protocols. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating violation of existing security protocols by military personnel. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Spanish Navy Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/spanish-navy/incident/FREITASPANAV1774060009
- Spanish Navy CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/spanish-navy
- Spanish Navy Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/freitaspanav1774060009-french-naval-group-spanish-navy-italian-navy-ministry-of-the-armed-forces-royal-netherlands-navy-breach-march-2026/
- Spanish Navy CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/spanish-navy/history
- Spanish Navy CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.indexbox.io/blog/fitness-app-data-exposes-french-naval-group-location-in-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