Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (PEPDELADOFIFTHEADINETOPE1783376814)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Adobe'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 Adobe 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 Adobe breach identified under incident ID PEPDELADOFIFTHEADINETOPE1783376814.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Adobe's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/adobe, the number of followers: 5434573, the industry type: Software Development and the number of employees: 42531 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 736 and after the incident was 725 with a difference of -11 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 Adobe and their customers.
Adobe recently reported "Phishing Campaign Targets Marketing Professionals with Fake Job Offers from Major Brands", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
A sophisticated phishing campaign is impersonating over 30 high-profile brands including Adobe, Netflix, Coca-Cola, and OpenAI to steal Google account credentials from marketing professionals under the guise of fake job interviews.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Google account credentials.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how Ongoing.
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 (T1566) with high confidence (95%), supported by evidence indicating sophisticated phishing campaign...under the guise of fake job interviews, Phishing: Spearphishing Link (T1566.001) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating links in phishing emails initially resolve to exct.net (Salesforce), and Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment (T1566.002) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating no evidence of malicious attachments, but emails used for phishing. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious Link (T1204.001) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating victims were prompted to sign in with their Google accounts via phishing link. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Input Capture: Web Portal Capture (T1056.006) with high confidence (95%), supported by evidence indicating fake Google authentication popup (BitB technique) to steal credentials and Steal Web Session Cookie (T1539) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating google account credentials targeted; potential session cookie theft. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Modify Authentication Process: Multi-Factor Authentication (T1556.006) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating bitB technique mimics Google auth; may bypass MFA prompts, Masquerading: Match Legitimate Name or Location (T1036.005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating domains mimicking brands (e.g., adidas-hiring.com); real recruiters names/photos, and Subvert Trust Controls: Code Signing (T1553.002) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating abuse of legitimate platforms (PeopleForce, Salesforce) for redirects. Under the Resource Development tactic, the analysis identified Acquire Infrastructure: Domains (T1583.001) with high confidence (95%), supported by evidence indicating 34 domains mimicking brands (e.g., adidas-hiring.com), Establish Accounts: Social Media Accounts (T1585.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating real recruiters’ names and photos used to enhance trust, and Obtain Capabilities: Malware (T1588.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating bitB technique (HTML/CSS) used for fake Google auth popup. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating google account credentials targeted; likely exfiltrated to attacker-controlled server. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Adobe Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/adobe/incident/PEPDELADOFIFTHEADINETOPE1783376814
- Adobe CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/adobe
- Adobe Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/pepdeladofiftheadinetope1783376814-adobe-netflix-coca-cola-openai-pepsico-adidas-fifa-delta-cyber-attack-february-2026/
- Adobe CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/adobe/history
- Adobe CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/phishing-poses-as-big-brand-job-interview-to-steal-google-accounts/
- 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