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Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (ANTARK1774585435)

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Rankiteo Incident Impact-4
Company Score Before Incident607 / 1000
Company Score After Incident603 / 1000
INCIDENT NUMBERANTARK1774585435
Type of Cyber IncidentVulnerability
ATTACK VECTORDOM-Based XSS via third-party CDN component, Overly Permissive Origin Allowlist
DATA EXPOSEDGoogle OAuth tokens, Gmail/Drive access,...
INCIDENT DATE25/12/2025
STATUSResolved

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 ANTARK1774585435.

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: 1898947, the industry type: Research Services and the number of employees: 3717 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 607 and after the incident was 603 with a difference of -4 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 26 December 2025, Anthropic (Claude Chrome Extension) disclosed Zero-Click Vulnerability, Prompt-Injection Attack issues under the banner "Critical Zero-Click Vulnerability in Claude Chrome Extension Exposed 3M Users to Silent Hijacking".

A now-patched zero-click vulnerability in Anthropic’s Claude Chrome Extension left over 3 million users vulnerable to silent prompt-injection attacks, enabling malicious actors to hijack the AI assistant without any user interaction.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Claude Chrome Extension, Google services (Gmail, Drive), and exposing Google OAuth tokens, Gmail/Drive access, LLM conversation history, email sending capabilities.

In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Strict origin allowlist enforcement (replaced wildcard *.claude.ai with https://claude.ai), and began remediation that includes Patch deployed on January 15, 2026; Arkose Labs XSS patched by February 19, 2026.

The case underscores how Resolved, teams are taking away lessons such as Systemic risk in AI browser agents: third-party components hosted on first-party subdomains can silently expand trust boundaries, creating exploitable attack surfaces. Supply chain vulnerabilities in AI assistants are high-value targets, and recommending next steps like Strict origin validation for browser extensions, Regular audits of third-party components hosted on first-party domains and Sanitization of dynamic content in React components (avoid dangerouslySetInnerHTML).

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 high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating attackers could embed the vulnerable component in a hidden iframe, triggering the exploit when a victim visited a malicious page and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating dOM-Based XSS in Arkose Labs CAPTCHA component (a-cdn.claude.ai) exploited. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating arbitrary JavaScript execution via dangerouslySetInnerHTML in React and JavaScript (T1059.007) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating unsanitized stringTable field allowed arbitrary JavaScript execution. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Bypass User Account Control (T1548.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating claude extension treated malicious prompt as legitimate user command due to trusted origin. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Steal Application Access Token (T1528) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating theft of Google OAuth tokens (persistent access to Gmail/Drive). Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating exfiltration of LLM conversation history, Google Drive files and Email Collection: Remote Email Collection (T1114.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating silent email sending via compromised accounts. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating attack scenarios included exfiltration of chat histories and OAuth tokens. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Code Signing: Code Signing Policy Modification (T1553.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating overly permissive origin allowlist (*.claude.ai) treated malicious prompts as trusted and Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating attack required no clicks, permissions, or visible indicators. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Defacement: Internal Defacement (T1491.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating silent hijacking of AI assistant without user interaction. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.

Initial Access
Drive-by Compromise (90%)
Exploit Public-Facing Application (80%)
Execution
Exploitation for Client Execution (90%)
JavaScript (90%)
Privilege Escalation
Bypass User Account Control (70%)
Credential Access
Steal Application Access Token (90%)
Collection
Data from Local System (80%)
Email Collection: Remote Email Collection (80%)
Exfiltration
Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (80%)
Defense Evasion
Code Signing: Code Signing Policy Modification (70%)
Obfuscated Files or Information (70%)
Impact
Defacement: Internal Defacement (60%)

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