18 Apr, 2026

Malicious MoltBot skills used to push password-stealing malware

More than 230 malicious packages for the personal AI assistant OpenClaw (formerly known as Moltbot and ClawdBot) have been published in less than a week on the tool’s official registry and on GitHub. Called skills, the packages pretend to be legitimate tools to deliver malware that steals sensitive data, like API keys, wallet private keys, SSH credentials, […]

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Viral Moltbot AI assistant raises concerns over data security

Security researchers are warning of insecure deployments in enterprise environments of the Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot) AI assistant, which can lead to leaking API keys, OAuth tokens, conversation history, and credentials. Moltbot is an open-source personal AI assistant with deep system integration created by Peter Steinberger that can be hosted locally on user devices and integrated directly with the user’s […]

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