Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (MOZPHAGITPROGOOGIT1780935989)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of GitHub'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 GitHub 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 GitHub breach identified under incident ID MOZPHAGITPROGOOGIT1780935989.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of GitHub's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/github, the number of followers: 5688458, the industry type: Software Development and the number of employees: 6007 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 333 and after the incident was 319 with a difference of -14 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 GitHub and their customers.
A newly reported cybersecurity incident, "North Korean Threat Actor Targets Developers in Large-Scale Phishing Campaign", has drawn attention.
A likely North Korean threat actor conducted a sophisticated phishing campaign targeting nearly 100 organizations primarily in the U.S.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting macOS, Linux, Windows systems running VS Code or Cursor, and exposing Browser credentials, cryptocurrency wallet data, saved passwords, cookies, plus an estimated financial loss of Cryptocurrency wallet drainage.
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 (90%), with evidence including sent over 250 malicious emails in April and May 2026, and fake job offers and code-review requests and Phishing: Spearphishing Link (T1566.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating lure victims into cloning malicious GitHub or GitLab repositories. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating javaScript ran directly in the editor, leaving no disk footprint, User Execution (T1204) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating vS Code displayed a trust prompt, but Cursor ran the payload silently, JavaScript (T1059.007) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating windows ran JavaScript directly in the editor, and Container Administration Command (T1609) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating exploiting a legitimate editor feature via tasks.json. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Browser Extensions (T1176) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating installed a fake Google-themed VS Code extension, ensuring persistence and XDG Autostart Entries (T1547.013) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating persistence by relaunching on macOS and Linux whenever the editor reopened. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Sudo and Sudo Caching (T1548.003) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating macOS/Linux displayed a fake password prompt to escalate privileges. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified File Deletion (T1070.004) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating after exfiltration, the malware deleted itself to evade detection, Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information (T1140) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating go-based RAT from the open-source Overlord framework, and Masquerading (T1036) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating fake Google-themed VS Code extension. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Credentials from Password Stores (T1555) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating dump keychains, saved passwords & cookies from Chrome, Brave, Edge, Firefox, Credentials from Web Browsers (T1555.003) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating targeted browser credentials from Chrome, Brave, Edge, and Firefox, and Steal Application Access Token (T1528) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating bypassed Chrome’s app-bound encryption to extract data. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating targeted cryptocurrency wallets and browser credentials and Automated Collection (T1119) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating malware targeted browser extensions such as MetaMask, Phantom, Keplr. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating go-based remote access trojan (RAT) from the Overlord framework. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Resource Hijacking (T1496) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating cryptocurrency wallet drainage. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- GitHub Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/github/incident/MOZPHAGITPROGOOGIT1780935989
- GitHub CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/github
- GitHub Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/mozphagitprogoogit1780935989-gitlab-proofpoint-google-github-phantom-firefox-cyber-attack-april-2026/
- GitHub CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/github/history
- GitHub CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/north-korean-hackers-developers/
- 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