Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (EQUZIR1774009900)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of ZIRILIO's Cyber Attack 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 ZIRILIO 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 ZIRILIO breach identified under incident ID EQUZIR1774009900.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of ZIRILIO's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zirilio, the number of followers: 597, the industry type: Security and Investigations and the number of employees: 15 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 757 and after the incident was 723 with a difference of -34 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 ZIRILIO and their customers.
Equestrian Australia recently reported "Equestrian Australia Legal Dispute Over Alleged Unauthorized Cyberattack", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
Equestrian Australia is facing a legal dispute over a 2024 cybersecurity penetration test that allegedly exceeded agreed boundaries, leading to unauthorized attacks on its former digital services provider's server.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Member database and horse registration portal, plus an estimated financial loss of 141756.06.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how Ongoing legal dispute.
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 (60%), supported by evidence indicating bypass a firewall to assess system vulnerabilities and Trusted Relationship (T1199) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating former digital services provider Lloyd Raleigh permitted Zirilio. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious Link (T1204.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating 19,131 unauthorized attacks targeting Raleigh’s server. Under the Lateral Movement tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation of Remote Services (T1210) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating attacks on URLs outside the agreed parameters. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify System Firewall (T1562.004) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating permitted Zirilio to bypass a firewall. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Defacement: Internal Defacement (T1491.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating alleged unauthorized access to member database and Financial Theft (T1657) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating incurred $141,756.06 in forensic examination costs. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- ZIRILIO Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/zirilio/incident/EQUZIR1774009900
- ZIRILIO CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/zirilio
- ZIRILIO Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/equzir1774009900-zirilio-equestrian-australia-cyber-attack-december-2025/
- ZIRILIO CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/zirilio/history
- ZIRILIO CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.smh.com.au/sport/embattled-olympic-sport-hit-with-legal-action-over-cyberattack-20251205-p5nl54.html
- 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