Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (BUB1774549511)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Bubble'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 Bubble 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 Bubble breach identified under incident ID BUB1774549511.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Bubble's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bubble, the number of followers: 79435, the industry type: Software Development and the number of employees: 515 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 739 and after the incident was 719 with a difference of -20 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 Bubble and their customers.
Bubble.io (abused platform) recently reported "Cybercriminals Exploit Bubble.io No-Code Platform for Phishing Attacks", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
Security researchers at Kaspersky have uncovered a new phishing tactic where cybercriminals abuse Bubble.io, a legitimate no-code app development platform, to bypass email security filters and steal Microsoft 365 credentials.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Microsoft 365 accounts, organizational networks, and exposing Microsoft 365 credentials.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how Ongoing (researchers have uncovered the tactic), teams are taking away lessons such as Legitimate platforms can be abused to bypass security measures, increasing the sophistication of phishing attacks. Organizations should enhance email security and user awareness to detect such threats, and recommending next steps like Implement advanced email security solutions to detect phishing attempts hosted on trusted domains, Educate users on recognizing phishing attempts, even when they appear to come from legitimate sources and Monitor for unusual login activity on Microsoft 365 accounts.
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 (90%), with evidence including new phishing tactic where cybercriminals abuse Bubble.io, and phishing emails to reach victims’ inboxes undetected and Phishing: Spearphishing Link (T1566.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating malicious web apps with embedded phishing functionality, hosted on bubble.io. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Input Capture: Keylogging (T1056.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), with evidence including phishing apps often mimic Microsoft login portals, and users who enter their credentials unknowingly hand them over, Brute Force: Password Guessing (T1110.001) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating microsoft 365 credentials stolen (implied potential for further attacks), and Adversary-in-the-Middle: LLMNR/NBT-NS Poisoning and SMB Relay (T1557.001) with lower confidence (20%), supported by evidence indicating 2FA code interception mentioned as a PhaaS feature. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Subvert Trust Controls: Code Signing (T1553.002) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating abuse of Bubble.io’s trusted domain to bypass email security filters and Masquerading: Match Legitimate Name or Location (T1036.005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating phishing apps mimic Microsoft login portals, hidden behind Cloudflare verification. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious Link (T1204.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating users unknowingly hand over credentials via phishing apps. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating credentials stolen for data theft, ransomware deployment, or further attacks. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Application Layer Protocol: Web Protocols (T1071.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating malicious web apps hosted on bubble.io (trusted domain). These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Bubble Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/bubble/incident/BUB1774549511
- Bubble CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/bubble
- Bubble Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/bub1774549511-bubbleio-cyber-attack-march-2026/
- Bubble CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/bubble/history
- Bubble CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/this-popular-app-builder-has-been-hijacked-to-steal-microsoft-account-details-heres-what-we-know
- 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