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OpenClaw🦞 (ex-Moltbot (ex

OpenClaw, a rapidly adopted AI assistant with broad system access, presents significant security risks due to widespread deployment of internet-exposed instances by users. Threat actors are actively exploiting these misconfigurations, conducting prompt injection attempts and direct attacks via the WebSocket API for authentication bypasses and raw command execution.

What Happened

OpenClaw, a rapidly adopted AI assistant with broad system access, presents significant security risks due to widespread deployment of internet-exposed instances by users. Threat actors are actively exploiting these misconfigurations, conducting prompt injection attempts and direct attacks via the WebSocket API for authentication bypasses and raw command execution.

Why This Matters

This is source reporting of a security event, not a confirmed product vulnerability or patchable CVE. Use it as situational awareness if named organizations, cloud tenants, or identity systems overlap with yours.

Recommended Action

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Exposure

Exposure reason: This incident does not currently match a technology in My Interests.

Exploitation status: ACTIVELY_EXPLOITED

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Timeline

• Incident first seen
  Feb 09, 2026 05:30

  BugSkan first recorded this incident.

• OpenClaw🦞 (ex-Moltbot (ex-Clawdbot)): The AI Butler With Its Claws On The Keys To Your Kingdom - bitsight.com
  Feb 09, 2026 05:30

  bitsight.com · News

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