Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (ANT1778581440)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Anthropic'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 Anthropic 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 Anthropic breach identified under incident ID ANT1778581440.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Anthropic's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/anthropicresearch, the number of followers: 4161158, the industry type: Research Services and the number of employees: 5336 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 357 and after the incident was 354 with a difference of -3 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 Anthropic and their customers.
On 07 May 2026, Anthropic disclosed Vulnerability Exploitation issues under the banner "Critical 'ClaudeBleed' Flaw in Anthropic’s Chrome Extension Exposes Sensitive Data".
A severe vulnerability dubbed *ClaudeBleed* in Anthropic’s *Claude in Chrome* browser extension allows malicious Chrome extensions to hijack Claude and exfiltrate sensitive data from Gmail, Google Drive, and GitHub without user interaction.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Anthropic’s *Claude in Chrome* browser extension, and exposing Sensitive data from Gmail, Google Drive, and GitHub.
In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Partial patch (v1.0.70) released on May 6, 2026, adding approval flows for privileged actions, and began remediation that includes LayerX recommends implementing signed request tokens, restricting *externally_connectable* to verified extensions, and cryptographically binding user approvals to specific actions.
The case underscores how Ongoing, teams are taking away lessons such as Reliance on origin-based trust is insufficient; authenticated execution context and cryptographic verification are necessary for secure extension communication, and recommending next steps like Implement signed request tokens, Restrict *externally_connectable* to verified extensions and Cryptographically bind user approvals to specific actions.
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 Drive-by Compromise (T1189) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating malicious Chrome extensions...hijack Claude and exfiltrate sensitive data and Supply Chain Compromise: Compromise Software Dependencies and Development Tools (T1195.002) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating flaw in Anthropic’s *Claude in Chrome* browser extension. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating malicious Chrome extensions...inject scripts into the *claude.ai* context and Command and Scripting Interpreter: JavaScript (T1059.007) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating inject scripts into the *claude.ai* context and issue privileged commands. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism: Bypass User Account Control (T1548.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating bypassing confirmation dialogs through approval looping and Valid Accounts: Cloud Accounts (T1078.004) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating mimicking legitimate traffic using Claude’s public extension ID. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Subvert Trust Controls: Code Signing (T1553.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating fails to verify the actual sender, enabling any extension to inject scripts, Masquerading: Match Legitimate Name or Location (T1036.005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating mimicking legitimate traffic using Claude’s public extension ID, and Hide Artifacts: Hidden Window (T1564.003) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating manipulating the DOM to deceive Claude into performing malicious actions. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Email Collection: Remote Email Collection (T1114.002) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating summarizing emails, forwarding them to an attacker, Data from Information Repositories: Sharepoint (T1213.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating exfiltrate sensitive data from Gmail, Google Drive, and GitHub, and Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating exfiltrate sensitive data from Gmail, Google Drive, and GitHub. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating exfiltrate sensitive data from Gmail, Google Drive, and GitHub and Exfiltration Over Web Service: Exfiltration to Cloud Storage (T1567.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating forwarding emails to an attacker. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating deleting traces and Data Manipulation: Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating manipulating the DOM to deceive Claude into performing malicious actions. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Anthropic Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/anthropicresearch/incident/ANT1778581440
- Anthropic CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/anthropicresearch
- Anthropic Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/ant1778581440-anthropic-vulnerability-may-2026/
- Anthropic CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/anthropicresearch/history
- Anthropic CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://cyberpress.org/claude-chrome-extension-flaw-lets-malicious-extensions-steal-gmail-and-google-drive-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