It’s a day with a name ending in Y, so you know what that means: Another OpenClaw cybersecurity disaster.
This time around, SecurityScorecard’s STRIKE threat intelligence team is sounding the alarm over the sheer volume of internet-exposed OpenClaw instances it discovered, which numbers more than 135,000 as of this writing. When combined with previously known vulnerabilities in the vibe-coded AI assistant platform and links to prior breaches, STRIKE warns that there’s a systemic security failure in the open-source AI agent space.
“Our findings reveal a massive access and identity problem created by poorly secured automation at scale,” the STRIKE team wrote in a report released Monday. “Convenience-driven deployment, default settings, and weak access controls have turned powerful AI agents into high-value targets for attackers.”
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.