Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (CENCOE1780562286)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Coempt Edu Teck's Vulnerability 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 Coempt Edu Teck 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 Coempt Edu Teck breach identified under incident ID CENCOE1780562286.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Coempt Edu Teck's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coempt-edu-teck, the number of followers: 1269, the industry type: IT System Data Services and the number of employees: 172 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 752 and after the incident was 751 with a difference of -1 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 Coempt Edu Teck and their customers.
Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) recently reported "AI-Driven Security Probes on CBSE and JEE Portals", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
A high-level expert panel from IIT Kanpur and Madras discovered AI tools (primarily Claude) were used to detect vulnerabilities in CBSE’s On-Screen Marking (OSM) portal.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting CBSE OSM portal, JEE Advanced portal and JoSAA portal, and exposing Potential exposure of JEE Advanced admit cards.
In response, teams activated the incident response plan, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Data transferred to government-controlled AWS segment, security audits conducted, and began remediation that includes Enhanced monitoring, decommissioning dormant digital assets, AI-driven exam paper translations, while recovery efforts such as CBSE portal went live on June 2, CUET re-test scheduled for June 6-7 continue, and stakeholders are being briefed through Advisory issued to government departments on cybersecurity hygiene.
The case underscores how Ongoing, teams are taking away lessons such as Lack of elementary cybersecurity hygiene in government departments, need for stronger procurement standards and proactive security measures in public digital infrastructure, and recommending next steps like Implement cybersecurity hygiene from the design stage, Minimize human intervention in exam processes and Use AI for secure exam paper translations, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Advisory issued to government departments on cybersecurity hygiene in digital service procurement.
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 to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating aI tools primarily Claude were used to detect vulnerabilities in the CBSE OSM portal and Trusted Relationship (T1199) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating coempt Edutech, the vendor managing the CBSE-OSM portal, lacked sufficient cybersecurity expertise. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Active Scanning (T1595) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating aI-driven vulnerability scanning detected gaps in the CBSE OSM portal. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force (T1110) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating over 100,000 unauthorized file access attempts on CBSE portal. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Network Denial of Service (T1498) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating cBSE portal experienced a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, recording 1.5 million hits in two minutes. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating leaked JEE Advanced admit cards surfaced on social media. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating lack of elementary cybersecurity hygiene in government departments. Under the Lateral Movement tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation of Remote Services (T1210) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating security audit of the JEE Advanced portal and JoSAA addressing critical vulnerabilities. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Coempt Edu Teck Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/coempt-edu-teck/incident/CENCOE1780562286
- Coempt Edu Teck CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/coempt-edu-teck
- Coempt Edu Teck Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/cencoe1780562286-cbse-coempt-edutech-vulnerability-june-2026/
- Coempt Edu Teck CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/coempt-edu-teck/history
- Coempt Edu Teck CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/claude-other-ai-tools-used-to-breach-cbse-portals-iit-panel/articleshow/131491324.cms
- 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