Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (TENSPA1773109868)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Spark Power ⚡'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 Spark Power ⚡ 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 Spark Power ⚡ breach identified under incident ID TENSPA1773109868.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Spark Power ⚡'s information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sparkpower, the number of followers: 19481, the industry type: Facilities Services and the number of employees: 553 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 761 and after the incident was 651 with a difference of -110 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 Spark Power ⚡ and their customers.
Tennessee Valley Electric Cooperative (TVEC) recently reported "Qilin Ransomware Gang Claims Breach of Tennessee Valley Electric Cooperative", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
The Qilin ransomware operation has allegedly breached the systems of Tennessee Valley Electric Cooperative (TVEC), which serves Wayne and Hardin Counties in West Tennessee.
Impact assessments are still underway, so the full scope is not yet clear.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
Overall, the incident is a reminder of why proactive monitoring and strong governance matter.
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 qilin ransomware operation has allegedly breached the systems and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating based on past Qilin attacks, potential targets may include employee records. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), with evidence including type such as Ransomware, and qilin ransomware strain identified. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating employee records, customer data, or internal documents may be targeted. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating employee records, customer data, or internal documents may be targeted. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating qilin claimed to have exfiltrated 222 GB of data from Spark Power. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including type such as Ransomware, and qilin ransomware strain identified. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating qilin ransomware operation listed attack on dark web blog and Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion (T1497) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware strain identified with no further details on breach. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Spark Power ⚡ Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/sparkpower/incident/TENSPA1773109868
- Spark Power ⚡ CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/sparkpower
- Spark Power ⚡ Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/tenspa1773109868-tennessee-valley-electric-cooperative-spark-power-ransomware-march-2026/
- Spark Power ⚡ CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/sparkpower/history
- Spark Power ⚡ CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.scworld.com/brief/qilin-purports-breach-of-us-electric-cooperative
- 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