Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (OPE1774434643)
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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 OPE1774434643.
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 636 and after the incident was 631 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.
On 16 March 2026, OpenClaw disclosed Supply-Chain Attack issues under the banner "Critical Vulnerability in ClawHub Exposed Supply-Chain Attack Risks".
Security researchers at Silverfort uncovered a severe flaw in ClawHub, the public skills registry for the OpenClaw agentic ecosystem, which allowed attackers to manipulate download counts and push malicious integrations to the top of search rankings.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting OpenClaw agentic ecosystem, ClawHub skills registry, and exposing Usernames, domain names, and potentially environment variables, memory tokens, or local files.
In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Fix deployed within 24 hours by OpenClaw's security team, and began remediation that includes Corrected the `downloads: increment` function to restrict public access.
The case underscores how Resolved, teams are taking away lessons such as Risks of rapid development practices, dangers of AI agents autonomously installing skills based on social proof, and the need for runtime security scanning of third-party integrations, and recommending next steps like Implement stricter access controls for backend functions, enforce rate limiting on public APIs, deploy runtime security plugins (e.g., ClawNet) to scan skills before execution, and improve trust signals beyond download counts.
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 Supply Chain Compromise: Compromise Software Supply Chain (T1195.002) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating proof-of-concept supply-chain attack by publishing a seemingly legitimate skill and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating improperly exposed backend function (Convex frameworks `downloads such as increment` configured as public mutation). Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating malicious skill executed 3,900 times across 50 global cities and User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating targets into installing compromised code via manipulated rankings. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Compromise Client Software Binary (T1554) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating malicious integrations pushed to the top of search rankings. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating bypassing security checks and exploiting trust signals and Masquerading (T1036) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating seemingly legitimate Outlook Graph Integration skill with hidden payload. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating payload harvested usernames, domain names, and potentially environment variables. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating data-exfiltration payload executed 3,900 times. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Defacement: Internal Defacement (T1491.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating manipulate download counts and push malicious integrations to top rankings. 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/OPE1774434643
- OpenClaw CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/openclawai
- OpenClaw Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/ope1774434643-openclaw-vulnerability-march-2026/
- OpenClaw CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/openclawai/history
- OpenClaw CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://cybersecuritynews.com/clawhub-vulnerability-manipulate-rankings-to-become-the-1-skill/
- 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