Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (WINSOL1773923036)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Solana'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 Solana 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 Solana breach identified under incident ID WINSOL1773923036.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Solana's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solana, the number of followers: 128691, the industry type: Technology, Information and Internet and the number of employees: 531 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 773 and after the incident was 742 with a difference of -31 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 Solana and their customers.
A newly reported cybersecurity incident, "Malicious VS Code Extension Targets Developers via Solana Blockchain", has drawn attention.
Cybersecurity researchers at Bitdefender uncovered a sophisticated attack targeting developers through a malicious extension for the Windurf IDE, disguising itself as a legitimate tool for the R programming language.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Developer Workstations, and exposing Passwords, Session Cookies, API Keys.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how Ongoing, teams are taking away lessons such as Growing risk of supply-chain attacks via trusted development tools; need for enhanced scrutiny of IDE extensions and unconventional C2 methods like blockchain transactions, and recommending next steps like Developers should verify the authenticity of IDE extensions, monitor for unusual blockchain transactions, and implement multi-factor authentication for sensitive credentials.
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 Supply Chain Compromise: Compromise Software Supply Chain (T1195.002) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including malicious extension for the Windurf IDE, and disguises itself as a legitimate tool for the R programming language and User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating once installed, the malware...deploys files like w.node and c_x64.node. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Command and Scripting Interpreter: JavaScript (T1059.007) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating retrieves encrypted JavaScript payloads from transactions on the Solana network and Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task (T1053.005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating creates a hidden PowerShell task (UpdateApp) that reactivates the malware. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task (T1053.005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating powerShell task (UpdateApp) that reactivates the malware on system startup. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating retrieves encrypted JavaScript payloads from transactions on the Solana network, Hide Artifacts: Hidden Window (T1564.003) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating creates a hidden PowerShell task (UpdateApp), and Application Layer Protocol: DNS/Blockchain (T1071.004) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating leverages the Solana blockchain for command-and-control (C2). Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified System Information Discovery (T1082) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating performing system profiling to avoid infecting users in Russia. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Steal Web Session Cookie (T1539) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating steals passwords and session cookies from browsers like Google Chrome and Credentials from Password Stores (T1555) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating steals passwords and session cookies from browsers like Google Chrome. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating steals passwords and session cookies from browsers like Google Chrome and Data from Cloud Storage (T1530) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating targets developers due to their access to high-value credentials, such as API keys. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating retrieves encrypted JavaScript payloads from Solana blockchain for C2. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Solana Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/solana/incident/WINSOL1773923036
- Solana CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/solana
- Solana Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/winsol1773923036-solana-windurf-ide-cyber-attack-march-2026/
- Solana CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/solana/history
- Solana CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://hackread.com/windsurf-ide-extension-solana-blockchain-developer-data/
- 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