{
 "public_id": "AIR-2026-0043",
 "incident_id": "2026-02-hudsonrock-openclaw-infostealer",
 "date_disclosed": "2026-02-16",
 "date_occurred": null,
 "title": "Commodity infostealer observed harvesting OpenClaw agent config, device keys and memory files from a real victim",
 "class": "in_the_wild",
 "attack_surface": "skill_plugin",
 "initial_vector": "commodity_infostealer_infection",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "persistent_agent_identity",
  "gateway_token",
  "agent_memory_files",
  "stored_credentials",
  "agent_identity_tokens"
 ],
 "target_product": "OpenClaw personal AI agent",
 "target_vendor": "OpenClaw",
 "autonomy_level": "semi_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "credential_theft",
  "agent_impersonation",
  "personal_data_exposure"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "At least one confirmed infected machine; openclaw.json gateway token, device.json keypair, soul.md, AGENTS.md and MEMORY.md exfiltrated",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI03"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "agent_credential_theft",
   "infostealer",
   "agent_identity",
   "agent_identity_theft",
   "local_secret_storage",
   "vidar"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "endpoint AV",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": null,
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://www.infostealers.com/article/hudson-rock-identifies-real-world-infostealer-infection-targeting-openclaw-configurations/",
  "https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/infostealer-steals-openclaw-ai-agent.html"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "connect to the victim's local OpenClaw instance remotely if the port is exposed, or to impersonate the client in authenticated requests to the AI gateway",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Important as the first documented real-world case of an infostealer sweeping up an agent's identity and memory rather than just browser credentials - though Hudson Rock is explicit that the malware (a likely Vidar variant) had no OpenClaw-specific module and caught the files via a generic file-grabbing routine. Single confirmed victim. Hudson Rock sells infostealer intelligence. Also reported as: 'Infostealer malware observed exfiltrating an OpenClaw agent's configuration environment and gateway tokens'.",
 "risk_category": "security_fraud",
 "risk_secondary": [
  "privacy"
 ],
 "risk_subcategory": "Credential & Secret Theft",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [
  "Unauthorized Access & Account Takeover"
 ],
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "ai_as_target",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "a commodity infostealer swept up the agent's identity and memory files",
 "vector_family": "other",
 "vector_detail": "commodity_infostealer_infection",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "unknown"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI03",
 "agent_framework": "openclaw",
 "model_provider": "unknown",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "unknown",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "credential_theft",
 "eai_domain": "access_control_and_permissions",
 "eai_secondary": [
  "sensitive_data_exposure"
 ],
 "eai_reason": "subcategory: Credential & Secret Theft",
 "asi_curated": [],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "rule",
 "asi_reason": "ASI03 (eai_category=credential_theft)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}