Users love OpenClaw; attackers do, too<\/p>\n
OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot and Moltbot) is a free, open-source, autonomous AI agent that launched on January 29<\/a> and almost immediately went viral. According to its developer, Peter Steinberger, its repo had more than 2 million visitors over the course of a single week, and it\u2019s estimated that it has been downloaded 720,000 times a week<\/a>.<\/p>\n OpenClaw runs locally on a user\u2019s hardware rather than in the cloud, and can perform autonomous, real-world actions on their behalf, such as reading emails, browsing web pages, running apps, or managing calendars.<\/p>\n However, almost immediately after release, it raised serious security issues<\/a>: It is prone to prompt injection attacks, authentication bypasses, and server-side request forgery (SSRF), among other attacks<\/a>. Many enterprises have responded by severely restricting, or outright banning, the AI agent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Users love OpenClaw; attackers do, too OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot and Moltbot) is a free, open-source, autonomous AI agent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-439633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}