This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Would be great if the article starts with: "What even is open claw?"
A picture of a cooked lobster is not helping
I didn't know either and so others don't have to look it up either:
OpenClaw is a free and open-source autonomous artificial intelligence agent developed by Peter Steinberger. It is an autonomous agent that can execute tasks via large language models, using messaging platforms as its main user interface
It went through a lot of rebranding as well. You might have heard of Clawdbot or Moltbot. All the same thing.
Is that the bot in the bots social network thing they created? Or is that unrelated
Yes it's all the same thing
It's a metaphor for the cooked humans that are spinning up super exploitable chatbots for it
This excerpt is the most astonishing to me:
STRIKE also mentioned 12,812 OpenClaw instances it discovered being vulnerable to an established and already patched remote code execution bug. As of this writing, the number of RCE-vulnerable instances has jumped to more than 50,000. The number of instances detected that were linked to previously reported breaches (not necessarily related) has also skyrocketed from 549 to over 53,000, as has the number of internet-facing OpenClaw instances associated with known threat actor IPs.
You’re telling me there’s a patch for an RCE, and the number of affected instances has not only not gone down, it has in fact increased 100x?
Honestly not surprised. Organizations have patch and vulnerability management procedures, people just run shit until they’re prompted to update, and if they git cloned they’ll probably never be prompted.
Right, but why would that lead to the number increasing? If there’s a fix on main, new clones wouldn’t have the vulnerability?
Newly detected. They were probably already there, just not scanned.
Or not exposed to the internet. Maybe the owner pulled the repo previously, left their weekend project alone for a bit, then came back to it after all this media attention.
Hilarious.
Precisely the thing everyone predicted happened? Who could have seen this coming?!
Bwahahahahahahha
