OpenClaw as malware
2026-02-19 17:15:53.069838+01 by
Dan Lyke
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Catalin Cimpanu
@campuscodi@mastodon.social
If you're not up to date with the latest devops drama, someone
published a PoC for a prompt injection in Cline:
https://adnanthekhan.com/posts/clinejection/
That PoC was later used to hijack the actual Cline repo and push
a malicious npm update that installed OpenClaw everywhere (LOL):
https://github.com/cline/cline...y/advisories/GHSA-9ppg-jx86-fqw7
Choosing to deploy an AI agent instead of malware is... something else
Maybe not malicious, but still a major compromise of dev environments
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