What is OpenClaw? AI marvel or cybersecurity nightmare
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People have flocked to the OpenClaw artificial intelligence agent since it was launched in November by Austrian programmer Peter Steinberger.
The digital assistant can use your computer to handle complex tasks that previously only a human could undertake, such as making travel bookings, prioritizing emails and drafting replies, surveying product catalogs and emailing vendors.
This leap in productivity comes with a catch: OpenClaw has proved to be a gift to hackers. One critical flaw, dubbed ClawJacked, allowed intruders to take control of a user’s OpenClaw agent simply by getting them to visit a malicious website. That defect was fixed. But researchers have found more than 40,000 vulnerabilities in the software.
Nowhere is there as much excitement or apprehension around OpenClaw as in China, where its rapid adoption has led to gyrations in the stock prices of big local tech firms and prompted officials to warn government agencies and state-owned enterprises — including some of the country’s largest banks — against installing it on office devices.
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