An Indian cyber safety agency, CloudSEK, grew to become the sufferer of a cyber safety incident when an unknown risk actor managed to entry its Confluence server.
Based on CloudSEK’s weblog put up on the incident, its founder and CEO Rahul Sasi wrote that the hacker used stolen credentials from one in all CloudSEK staff’ Jira accounts. Rahul additional said that the risk actor (s) compromised the worker’s Jira password to entry the corporate’s Confluence pages.
Furthermore, the hacker accessed some inside knowledge similar to three buyer names with their buy orders, bug stories, product dashboard screenshots, and Schema Diagrams obtained from the Confluence wiki.
CloudSEK additionally confirmed that server or database entry wasn’t compromised. An investigation into the incident was rapidly launched. Outlining attainable suspects, Sasi claimed that one other cyber safety agency having a fame for monitoring darkish internet happenings could possibly be accountable.
“We suspect a infamous Cyber Safety firm that’s into Darkish internet monitoring behind the assault. The assault and the symptoms join again to an attacker with a infamous historical past of utilizing comparable techniques now we have noticed previously.”
Rahul Sasi
Hacker’s Claims
Across the identical time when CloudSEK found the assault, that’s on sixth December, Tuesday, Cyble Analysis & Intelligence Labs (CRIL) cyber safety specialists observed a risk actor utilizing the nick’ sedut’ who claimed to have breached the safety of CloudSEK Data Safety Pvt Ltd. The actor posted about hacking into the Indian agency on a number of cybercrime boards.
Cyble researchers suspect it was a focused assault on CloudSEK and that the attacker’s goal was to negatively affect the corporate’s fame throughout the digital risk intelligence fraternity. Revealing the attacker’s claims, Cyble researchers wrote of their weblog put up that the attacker had a number of accesses and was overtly providing the information to patrons on these boards.
The info on sale included:
- Pre-sales data.
- VPN credentials.
- Buy orders.
- Firm credentials.
- In depth clientele knowledge.
- Mission-related databases.
- Confidential supply codes.
- Delicate infrastructure particulars.
- Engineering products-related knowledge.
Furthermore, the risk actor claimed to have had entry to CloudSEK’s ecosystem for a number of months. He supported this declare by sharing a number of screenshots and movies confirming they’d entry to the corporate’s inside servers.
As proven within the first screenshot, the hacker additionally leaked pictures that contained account usernames and passwords of accounts used for scraping the XSS and Breached hacking boards, and directions on utilizing completely different web site crawlers, amongst different knowledge.
The database is on the market for $10,000, and the engineering/worker product information are $8000 every.
How Did it Happen?
Sasi revealed that the hacker used the stolen Jira account credentials to entry inside paperwork, coaching docs, open-source automation scripts, and Confluence pages, as these have been attacked to the account.
CloudSEK additionally confirmed that the Jira person didn’t use a password however solely SSO; his e mail was additionally protected by MFA (multi-factor authentication). So, the Jira password and the person’s e mail account weren’t compromised.
As a substitute, the corporate believes the risk actor compromised the session cookies of the Jira person, permitting them to take over the account. How the attacker received maintain of the session cookies is at present underneath investigation.
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