Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (TRU1777295519)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of TrueConf'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 TrueConf 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 TrueConf breach identified under incident ID TRU1777295519.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of TrueConf's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/trueconf, the number of followers: 5000, the industry type: Software Development and the number of employees: 105 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 747 with a difference of -5 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 TrueConf and their customers.
On 27 August 2025, a cybersecurity incident called "PhantomCore Exploits TrueConf Vulnerabilities in Targeted Russian Cyberattacks" came to light.
Since September 2025, the pro-Ukrainian hacktivist group PhantomCore has been targeting Russian organizations by exploiting critical vulnerabilities in TrueConf video conferencing software.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting TrueConf video conferencing servers and Network infrastructure, and exposing True.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how Ongoing, and recommending next steps like Patch TrueConf Server vulnerabilities immediately, Monitor for unauthorized access and lateral movement and Deploy enhanced detection for custom malware and web shells.
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 (95%), with evidence including exploiting critical vulnerabilities in TrueConf video conferencing software, and bDU-2025-10116 (CVSS 9.8) - Command injection flaw enabling arbitrary OS command execution. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including execute remote commands on vulnerable servers, and pHP-based web shell for file uploads and remote command execution and Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203) with moderate to high confidence (85%), supported by evidence indicating phantomPxPigeon, a malicious TrueConf client with reverse shell capabilities. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Create Account (T1136) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating created a rogue admin account (TrueConf2) on breached servers, Server Software Component: Web Shell (T1505.003) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating deploying a PHP-based web shell for file uploads and remote command execution, and Account Manipulation (T1098) with moderate to high confidence (75%), supported by evidence indicating insufficient access control allowing unauthenticated requests to administrative endpoints (BDU such as 2025-10114). Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) with moderate to high confidence (85%), supported by evidence indicating bDU-2025-10116 (CVSS 9.8) - Command injection flaw enabling arbitrary OS command execution. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Masquerading (T1036) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating phantomPxPigeon, a malicious TrueConf client with reverse shell capabilities and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating high stealth, remaining undetected in victim networks for extended periods. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate to high confidence (85%), with evidence including veeam-Get-Creds for credential harvesting, and dumpIt and MemProcFS for extracting sensitive data and Unsecured Credentials: Credentials In Files (T1552.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating arbitrary file read vulnerability (BDU such as 2025-10115). Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Account Discovery (T1087) with moderate to high confidence (75%), supported by evidence indicating aDRecon for reconnaissance and Network Service Discovery (T1046) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating lateral movement using WinRM, RDP, and Velociraptor. Under the Lateral Movement tactic, the analysis identified Remote Services: Remote Desktop Protocol (T1021.001) with moderate to high confidence (85%), supported by evidence indicating lateral movement using RDP, Remote Services: Windows Remote Management (T1021.006) with moderate to high confidence (85%), supported by evidence indicating lateral movement using WinRM, and Lateral Tool Transfer (T1570) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating reverse SSH tunnels (PhantomSscp, MacTunnelRat, PhantomProxyLite). Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating dumpIt and MemProcFS for extracting sensitive data and Data from Network Shared Drive (T1039) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating arbitrary file read vulnerability (BDU such as 2025-10115). Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Proxy (T1090) with moderate to high confidence (85%), supported by evidence indicating sOCKS proxies (microsocks, rsocx, tsocks) to control compromised hosts, Ingress Tool Transfer (T1105) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating deploying custom malware (PhantomPxPigeon, PhantomProxyLite), and Application Layer Protocol: Web Protocols (T1071.001) with moderate to high confidence (75%), supported by evidence indicating pHP-based web shell for remote command execution. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including data exfiltration, and reverse SSH tunnels (PhantomSscp, MacTunnelRat) and Exfiltration Over Web Service (T1567) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating sOCKS proxies (microsocks, rsocx) for data exfiltration. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware deployment including variants based on leaked Babuk and LockBit source code and Defacement (T1491) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating network disruption as part of politically motivated attacks. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- TrueConf Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/trueconf/incident/TRU1777295519
- TrueConf CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/trueconf
- TrueConf Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/tru1777295519-trueconf-vulnerability-september-2025/
- TrueConf CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/trueconf/history
- TrueConf CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/phantomcore-exploits-trueconf.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