Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (SYN1775162306)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Synopsys Inc'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 Synopsys Inc 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 Synopsys Inc breach identified under incident ID SYN1775162306.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Synopsys Inc's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/synopsys, the number of followers: 855060, the industry type: Software Development and the number of employees: 28434 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 755 with a difference of -65 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 Synopsys Inc and their customers.
On 02 April 2026, Synopsys, Inc. disclosed Ransomware issues under the banner "Synopsys Data Breach Exposes Sensitive Personal and Corporate Data in Ransomware Attack".
Synopsys, Inc., a leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA), semiconductor intellectual property, and software security solutions based in Sunnyvale, California, suffered a significant data breach following a ransomware attack.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Sensitive personal and corporate data.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how Ongoing (legal investigation by Shamis & Gentile P.A.).
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 suffered a significant data breach following a ransomware attack and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating attack threatening the organizations existence (implies deep access). Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack claimed by Arkana Security. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating social Security numbers, government ID numbers compromised and Unsecured Credentials: Credentials In Files (T1552.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating contracts, billing receipts, employee records exposed. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating driver’s licenses, medical records, EDA files, research compromised and Data from Network Shared Drive (T1039) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating corporate data including intellectual property exposed. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration confirmed; threatened to publish on dark web and Exfiltration Over Web Service: Exfiltration to Cloud Storage (T1567.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating attackers threatened to publish data (implies cloud/dark web storage). Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack (implies encryption for ransom) and Defacement: Internal Defacement (T1491.001) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating attack threatening the organizations existence. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack (commonly uses obfuscation) and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating attack threatening the organizations existence (implies defense bypass). These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Synopsys Inc Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/synopsys/incident/SYN1775162306
- Synopsys Inc CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/synopsys
- Synopsys Inc Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/syn1775162306-synopsys-inc-ransomware-june-2025/
- Synopsys Inc CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/synopsys/history
- Synopsys Inc CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.claimdepot.com/investigations/synopsys-data-breach-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