Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (ROCGOOAWS1776436721)
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Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of ROCKSTAR satellite's Breach 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 ROCKSTAR satellite 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 ROCKSTAR satellite breach identified under incident ID ROCGOOAWS1776436721.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of ROCKSTAR satellite's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rockstar-satellite, the number of followers: 27, the industry type: Retail and the number of employees: 7 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 772 and after the incident was 587 with a difference of -185 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 ROCKSTAR satellite and their customers.
Commercial Satellite Operators recently reported "Cybersecurity Roundup: Satellite Defenses, Phishing Crackdowns, and Critical Vulnerabilities", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
This week’s cybersecurity landscape saw significant developments across policy, law enforcement actions, and emerging threats, underscoring the evolving risks to infrastructure, software, and user data.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting C2k educational network, AWS RES and ShowDoc, and exposing 25,000+ accounts and 13.5 million user records (100GB of data), with nearly ['25,000+ accounts', '13.5 million user records'] records at risk, plus an estimated financial loss of $20 million in attempted fraud.
In response, and began remediation that includes AWS RES patch (version 2026.03), ShowDoc patch (version 2.8.7) and Chrome update (version 147).
Overall, the incident is a reminder of why proactive monitoring and strong governance matter.
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%), supported by evidence indicating w3LL phishing-as-a-service facilitated over $20 million in attempted fraud, Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating cVE-2025-0520 in ShowDoc exploited via unrestricted file upload, Supply Chain Compromise: Compromise Software Dependencies and Development Tools (T1195.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating glassWorm malware spreads via malicious OpenVSX extension disguised as WakaTime, and Valid Accounts: Cloud Accounts (T1078.004) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating shinyHunters exploited Anodot cloud tokens to access Snowflake instances. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating cVE-2026-6296 (Chrome heap buffer overflow) enabled execution and User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating glassWorm dropper executed via malicious VS Code extension. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating aWS RES flaws (CVE-2026-5707/5708/5709) enabled privilege escalation. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials: Cloud Instance Metadata API (T1552.005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating shinyHunters exploited misconfigured Anodot cloud tokens and Steal Application Access Token (T1528) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating w3LL phishing kit compromised 25,000+ accounts. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Cloud Service Discovery (T1526) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating shinyHunters accessed Snowflake data warehouse instances. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Cloud Storage (T1530) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating shinyHunters exfiltrated 100GB of data from McGraw Hill. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating 13.5 million user records (100GB) exfiltrated from McGraw Hill and Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating glassWorm malware executed with full system access. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Defacement: Internal Defacement (T1491.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating c2k educational network breach exposed personal data. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- ROCKSTAR satellite Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/rockstar-satellite/incident/ROCGOOAWS1776436721
- ROCKSTAR satellite CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/rockstar-satellite
- ROCKSTAR satellite Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/rocgooaws1776436721-rockstar-games-google-aws-breach-april-2026/
- ROCKSTAR satellite CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/rockstar-satellite/history
- ROCKSTAR satellite CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.securityweek.com/in-other-news-satellite-cybersecurity-act-90k-chrome-flaw-teen-hacker-arrested/
- 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