Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (VER1766786250)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of VeraBank'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 VeraBank 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 VeraBank breach identified under incident ID VER1766786250.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of VeraBank's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/verabank, the number of followers: 2723, the industry type: Financial Services and the number of employees: 297 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 756 and after the incident was 686 with a difference of -70 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 VeraBank and their customers.
On 26 December 2025, VeraBank, Inc. disclosed Data Breach issues under the banner "VeraBank Data Breach via Vendor Marquis Software Solutions".
VeraBank, a community bank in Texas, experienced a data breach through its vendor Marquis Software Solutions.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Vendor (Marquis Software Solutions) systems, and exposing Sensitive personally identifiable information.
In response, and stakeholders are being briefed through Notification to affected individuals on 2025-12-12, filing with Massachusetts Attorney General’s office on 2025-12-26.
The case underscores how and recommending next steps like Sign up for free Cyberscout identity theft protection services, Monitor financial statements for suspicious activity and Place a fraud alert and request credit reports from major credit bureaus, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Notification to affected individuals on 2025-12-12.
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 Supply Chain Compromise (T1195) with high confidence (95%), with evidence including unauthorized access to Marquis’s systems, and third-party vendor compromise and Supply Chain Compromise: Compromise Software Supply Chain (T1195.002) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating marquis Software Solutions handles customer communications and data analysis. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (85%), supported by evidence indicating attacker copied files containing VeraBank customer data and Automated Exfiltration (T1020) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration such as Yes. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Steal Application Access Token (T1528) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized access to Marquis’s systems (implied vendor credentials). Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating exposed sensitive personally identifiable information and Data Manipulation: Transmitted Data Manipulation (T1565.002) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating identity theft risk such as High. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- VeraBank Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/verabank/incident/VER1766786250
- VeraBank CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/verabank
- VeraBank Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/ver1766786250-breach-august-2025/
- VeraBank CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/verabank/history
- VeraBank CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.claimdepot.com/investigations/verabank-data-breach-2025
- 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