Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (SAL1773146972)
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Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Salesforce'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 Salesforce 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 Salesforce breach identified under incident ID SAL1773146972.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Salesforce's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/salesforce, the number of followers: 6288912, the industry type: Software Development and the number of employees: 86766 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 100 and after the incident was 100 with a difference of 0 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 Salesforce and their customers.
On 10 March 2026, Salesforce customers with misconfigured Experience Cloud sites disclosed Data Harvesting issues under the banner "Threat Actors Exploit Modified AuraInspector Tool to Harvest Data from Misconfigured Salesforce Sites".
On March 10, 2026, Salesforce’s Cybersecurity Operations Center (CSOC) warned of a campaign in which threat actors are mass-scanning publicly accessible Salesforce Experience Cloud sites using a modified version of the AuraInspector tool.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Salesforce Experience Cloud sites, and exposing Accounts, Contacts, Leads (CRM data).
In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Review and secure guest user settings, restrict public access, disable unnecessary APIs, monitor logs, and began remediation that includes Secure guest user permissions, restrict public access to Salesforce Experience Cloud sites.
The case underscores how Ongoing, teams are taking away lessons such as Misconfigurations in cloud services like Salesforce Experience Cloud can lead to significant data exposure. Regular audits of guest user permissions and public access settings are critical, and recommending next steps like Review and secure guest user settings, restrict public access to Salesforce Experience Cloud sites, disable unnecessary APIs, and monitor logs for suspicious activity, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Salesforce advises organizations to review and secure guest user settings, restrict public access, disable unnecessary APIs, and monitor logs.
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 high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating mass-scanning publicly accessible Salesforce Experience Cloud sites and Valid Accounts: Default Accounts (T1078.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating exploit overly permissive guest user settings. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials: Cloud Instance Metadata API (T1552.006) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating extract sensitive CRM data via exposed Aura endpoints. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Cloud Storage Object: Cloud Storage (T1213.001) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating harvests data from misconfigured environments (Accounts, Contacts, Leads) and Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating extract sensitive CRM data via exposed Aura endpoints. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration for targeted social engineering or vishing attacks and Transfer Data to Cloud Account (T1537) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating modified AuraInspector tool actively harvests data. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Cloud Service Discovery (T1526) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating mass-scanning publicly accessible Salesforce Experience Cloud sites. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Code Signing: Code Signing Policy Modification (T1553.006) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating modified version of the AuraInspector tool. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Salesforce Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/salesforce/incident/SAL1773146972
- Salesforce CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/salesforce
- Salesforce Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/sal1773146972-salesforce-breach-march-2026/
- Salesforce CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/salesforce/history
- Salesforce CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://securityaffairs.com/189214/security/threat-actors-use-custom-aurainspector-to-harvest-data-from-salesforce-systems.html
- 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