Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (OPE1770630718)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of OpenClaw'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 OpenClaw 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 OpenClaw breach identified under incident ID OPE1770630718.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of OpenClaw's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openclawai, the number of followers: 2607, the industry type: Technology, Information and Internet and the number of employees: 5 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 732 and after the incident was 727 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 OpenClaw and their customers.
A newly reported cybersecurity incident, "Thousands of OpenClaw AI Assistants Exposed Online, Raising Security Risks", has drawn attention.
SecurityScorecard identified 40,214 publicly exposed instances of OpenClaw, a widely used AI assistant tool, linked to 28,663 unique IP addresses.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting 40,214 exposed instances of OpenClaw AI assistants.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how teams are taking away lessons such as The incident underscores the need for stricter access controls and vigilance in AI deployment, particularly regarding misconfigurations and shadow IT risks, and recommending next steps like Implement stricter access controls for AI tools, Monitor and secure publicly exposed instances and Address misconfigurations and vulnerabilities promptly.
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 (90%), with evidence including 40,214 publicly exposed instances of OpenClaw, and 63% of instances found to be exploitable, Exploitation of Remote Services (T1210) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating 12,812 at risk of remote code execution (RCE), and External Remote Services (T1133) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating publicly exposed instances linked to 28,663 unique IP addresses. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating 12,812 at risk of remote code execution (RCE) and Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating rCE could allow full host machine takeover. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials: Credentials In Files (T1552.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating some users have inadvertently leaked API keys via control panels. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified External Remote Services (T1133) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating publicly exposed instances linked to 28,663 unique IP addresses. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating rCE could allow full host machine takeover. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating misconfigured deployments leave systems vulnerable. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Automated Collection (T1119) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating indirect prompt injection risks...tricking the AI into executing unintended actions. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating 549 exposed instances tied to prior breach activity. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Resource Hijacking (T1496) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating rCE could allow full host machine takeover. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- OpenClaw Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/openclawai/incident/OPE1770630718
- OpenClaw CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/openclawai
- OpenClaw Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/ope1770630718-openclaw-vulnerability-february-2026/
- OpenClaw CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/openclawai/history
- OpenClaw CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/researchers-40000-exposed-openclaw/
- 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