Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (OPEVIR1770537272)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of OpenClaw's Cyber Attack 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 OPEVIR1770537272.
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 764 and after the incident was 732 with a difference of -32 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.
OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot and Clawdbot) recently reported "OpenClaw Partners with VirusTotal to Strengthen Security Amid Rising AI Agent Threats", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
OpenClaw, the open-source AI automation platform formerly known as Moltbot and Clawdbot, has partnered with VirusTotal to enhance security for its skill marketplace, ClawHub.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting OpenClaw AI automation platform, ClawHub skill marketplace, Enterprise environments using OpenClaw without IT oversight, and exposing Sensitive data, API keys, Session tokens, Personally identifiable information.
In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like SHA-256 hash scanning of skills, Daily rescans of active skills, Blocking of malicious skills, Flagging of suspicious skills, and began remediation that includes Partnership with VirusTotal, Implementation of Code Insight for deeper analysis, Automatic approval of benign skills.
The case underscores how teams are taking away lessons such as Rapid adoption of AI agents outpaces security best practices, turning misconfigurations into a primary attack vector. AI agents blur the line between user intent and execution, making them vulnerable to manipulation. Reliance on language models for security decisions and lack of sandboxing increase risks, and recommending next steps like Implement default sandboxing for AI agents, Improve filtering of untrusted content, Avoid plaintext storage of API keys and session tokens, Require explicit user approval for tool calls, Enhance monitoring and threat detection for AI agent activities, Adopt formal IT oversight for enterprise AI agent deployments.
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 malicious skills on ClawHub...exfiltrate data, install backdoors, or deploy stealer malware and Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment (T1566.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating skills uploaded to the platform...under the guise of legitimate tools. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating skills can execute tool calls, granting attackers potential access to sensitive data and Command and Scripting Interpreter: JavaScript (T1059.007) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating aI agents interpret natural language and make autonomous decisions. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Server Software Component: Web Shell (T1505.003) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating install backdoors...under the guise of legitimate tools. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating skills run with the full privileges granted by users. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating sophisticated prompt injection attacks may evade detection and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating lack of default sandboxing, ineffective filtering of untrusted content. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Unsecured Credentials: Credentials In Files (T1552.001) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating plaintext storage of API keys and session tokens. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Account Discovery: Cloud Account (T1087.004) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating skills can...interact with online services. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating exfiltrate data...sensitive data, API keys, session tokens. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Application Layer Protocol: Web Protocols (T1071.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating skills can trigger workflows, interact with online services. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating exfiltrate data...data exfiltration confirmed. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Resource Hijacking (T1496) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating unauthorized commands...potential access to sensitive data. 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/OPEVIR1770537272
- OpenClaw CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/openclawai
- OpenClaw Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/opevir1770537272-openclaw-virustotal-cyber-attack-february-2026/
- OpenClaw CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/openclawai/history
- OpenClaw CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/openclaw-integrates-virustotal-scanning.html
- 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