Tag: skills
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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 83
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter ClawHavoc: 341 Malicious Clawed Skills Found by the Bot They Were Targeting ù APT28 Leverages CVE-2026-21509 in Operation Neusploit Amaranth-Dragon: Weaponizing CVE-2025-8088 for Targeted Espionage in the Southeast Asia Analyzing Dead#Vax: Analyzing Multi-Stage VHD…
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‘I fell into it’: ex-criminal hackers urge Manchester pupils to use web skills for good
Initiative aims to identify proficient gamers and coders who can help companies identify flaws in their cybersecurity Cybercriminals, the shadowy online figures often depicted in Hollywood movies as hooded villains capable of wiping millions of pounds off the value of businesses at a keystroke, are not usually known for their candour.But in a sixth-form college…
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OpenClaw Integrates VirusTotal Scanning to Detect Malicious ClawHub Skills
OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot and Clawdbot) has announced that it’s partnering with Google-owned VirusTotal to scan skills that are being uploaded to ClawHub, its skill marketplace, as part of broader efforts to bolster the security of the agentic ecosystem.”All skills published to ClawHub are now scanned using VirusTotal’s threat intelligence, including their new Code Insight capability,”…
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OpenClaw’s Gregarious Insecurities Make Safe Usage Difficult
Malicious skills and persnickety configuration settings are just some of the issues that security researchers have found when installing, and removing, the OpenClaw AI assistant. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/openclaw-insecurities-safe-usage-difficult
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17% of 3rd-Party Add-Ons for OpenClaw Used in Crypto Theft and macOS Malware
Bitdefender Labs reveals that 17% of OpenClaw AI skills analyzed in February 2026 are malicious. With over 160,000… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/openclaw-add-ons-crypto-theft-macos-malware/
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Kostenloser AIChecker von Bitdefender hilft, bösartigen Payload in Skills zu identifizieren
KI-Skills können bösartigen Payload ausspielen. Das ist ein enormes Risiko, denn kein Nutzer hat die Zeit, jedes Skript oder Kommando zu überprüfen, welches im ersten Moment hilfreich und bekannt erscheint. Bitdefender stellt daher als Reaktion auf die aktuelle Bedrohungslage des funktionsstarken und deshalb gefährlichen KI-Assistenten OpenClaw einen kostenlosen AI-Skill-Checker zur Verfügung. Mit dem neuen Tool…
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Your PQC Pilot Might Fail, and That’s Okay
Tags: skillsStart PQC pilots now”, not to prove readiness but to surface interoperability, vendor, inventory, and skills gaps so organizations can manage post-quantum migration risks. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/your-pqc-pilot-might-fail-and-thats-okay/
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Claude Opus 4.6 Finds 500+ High-Severity Flaws Across Major Open-Source Libraries
Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic revealed that its latest large language model (LLM), Claude Opus 4.6, has found more than 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries, including Ghostscript, OpenSC, and CGIF.Claude Opus 4.6, which was launched on Thursday, comes with improved coding skills, including code review and debugging capabilities, along First seen…
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OpenClaw reveals meaty personal information after simple cracks
Skills marketplace is full of stuff – like API keys and credit card numbers – that crims will find tasty First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/02/05/openclaw_skills_marketplace_leaky_security/
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OpenClaw AI Agent Sparks Global Security Alarm
Open-Source Tool Security ‘Dumpster Fire,’ Experts Warn. An open-source AI assistant that exploded in popularity over the past month is exposing users to data theft, malicious code and runaway costs. Users can add functions called skills that connect assistants with different services – and hackers have been quick to add malicious examples. First seen on…
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Hundreds of Malicious Crypto Trading Add-Ons Found in Moltbot/OpenClaw
A security researcher found 386 malicious ‘skills’ published on ClawHub, a skill repository for the popular OpenClaw AI assistant project First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/malicious-crypto-trading-skills/
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Hundreds of Malicious Crypto Trading Addons Found in Moltbot/OpenClaw
A security researcher found 386 malicious ‘skills’ published on ClawHub, a skill repository for the popular OpenClaw AI assistant project First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/malicious-crypto-trading-skills/
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Hundreds of Malicious Skills Found in OpenClaw’s ClawHub
Researchers found hundreds of malicious skills in OpenClaw’s ClawHub, revealing a coordinated AI supply chain attack. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/hundreds-of-malicious-skills-found-in-openclaws-clawhub/
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Abuse of OpenClaw AI Capabilities Enables Stealthy Malware Campaigns
Tags: ai, attack, automation, backdoor, cyber, malicious, malware, marketplace, skills, supply-chain, threatHundreds of malicious skills are distributed through OpenClaw’s marketplace, transforming the popular AI agent ecosystem into a new supply chain attack vector. Threat actors are weaponizing the platform’s extensibility features to deliver droppers, backdoors, and infostealers disguised as legitimate automation tools.”‹ OpenClaw Skills Become Malware Distribution Channel OpenClaw is a self-hosted AI agent that executes…
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MoltBot Skills exploited to distribute 400+ malware packages in days
Over 400 malicious OpenClaw packages were uploaded in days, using MoltBot skills to spread password-stealing malware. Researchers uncovered a large malware campaign abusing AI skills for Claude Code and Moltbot users. Between late January and early February 2026, more than 400 malicious skills were published on ClawHub and GitHub, posing as crypto trading tools. OpenClaw…
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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. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-moltbot-skills-used-to-push-password-stealing-malware/
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Researchers Find 341 Malicious ClawHub Skills Stealing Data from OpenClaw Users
A security audit of 2,857 skills on ClawHub has found 341 malicious skills across multiple campaigns, according to new findings from Koi Security, exposing users to new supply chain risks.ClawHub is a marketplace designed to make it easy for OpenClaw users to find and install third-party skills. It’s an extension to the OpenClaw project, a…
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Researchers Find 341 Malicious ClawHub Skills Stealing Data from OpenClaw Users
A security audit of 2,857 skills on ClawHub has found 341 malicious skills across multiple campaigns, according to new findings from Koi Security, exposing users to new supply chain risks.ClawHub is a marketplace designed to make it easy for OpenClaw users to find and install third-party skills. It’s an extension to the OpenClaw project, a…
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Startup Amutable plotting Linux security overhaul to counter hacking threats
Tags: attack, backdoor, ceo, cloud, computer, computing, container, cve, cybercrime, data, exploit, fortinet, hacking, infrastructure, kubernetes, linux, microsoft, open-source, skills, software, startup, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, training, vpn, vulnerabilitysystemd, he has alongside him two other ex-Microsoft employees, Chris Kühl as CEO, and Christian Brauner as CTO.A clue to Amutable’s plans lies in the announcement’s emphasis on some of its founders’ backgrounds in Kubernetes, runc, LXC, Incus, and containerd, all connected in different ways to the Linux container stack. Computing is full of security…
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Crooks are hijacking and reselling AI infrastructure: Report
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, business, cloud, communications, control, credentials, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, endpoint, exploit, firewall, group, infosec, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, LLM, malicious, marketplace, risk, service, skills, technology, theft, threat, training, vulnerabilityexposed endpoints on default ports of common LLM inference services;unauthenticated API access without proper access controls;development/staging environments with public IP addresses;MCP servers connecting LLMs to file systems, databases and internal APIs.Common misconfigurations leveraged by these threat actors include:Ollama running on port 11434 without authentication;OpenAI-compatible APIs on port 8000 exposed to the internet;MCP servers accessible without…
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Skills CISOs need to master in 2026
Tags: access, ai, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, endpoint, finance, firewall, group, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, jobs, resilience, risk, risk-management, skills, strategy, threat, tool, trainingTop technical skills: In addition to strong knowledge of AI systems, today’s CISOs need a solid foundation in the technologies that define modern enterprise environments. The (ISC)² CISSP is still widely regarded as the gold standard for broad expertise in security architecture, risk management, and governance. “Regulators will expect this, and it still appears in…
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4 Probleme, die CISOs behindern
Tags: ai, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, cyberattack, cybersecurity, cyersecurity, data, framework, governance, risk, risk-management, skills, strategy, tool, vulnerability-managementLesen Sie, welche strategischen Probleme CISOs bei ihren Aufgaben behindern.Viele Sicherheitsverantwortliche glauben, dass ein Cybervorfall unvermeidlich ist unklsar ist lediglich der Zeitpunkt. Diese Überzeugung spiegelt sich in der gängigen Redewendung wider, dass es nicht darum geht, ‘ob”, sondern ‘wann” ein Angriff erfolgt.Eine wachsende Zahl von CISOs rechnet jedoch eher früher als später mit einem Vorfall:…
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4 issues holding back CISOs’ security agendas
Tags: access, ai, application-security, attack, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, endpoint, framework, governance, intelligence, jobs, monitoring, network, resilience, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, sans, service, skills, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerability, vulnerability-management2. Inability to keep pace with AI innovation and adoption: Executives and employees alike have been rushing to adopt artificial intelligence, enticed by expectations that AI will transform workflows and save time, money, and effort.But CISOs for the most part have not kept pace with their business colleagues’ rate of AI adoption.According to a survey…
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Latin American Orgs Lack Confidence in Cyber Defenses, Skills
Cybersecurity professionals in Latin America are least likely to have faith in their countries’ preparedness for cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, the World Economic Forum says. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/latin-american-confidence-cyber-defenses-skills
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From arts degree to cybersecurity: Rona Michele Spiegel brings fresh perspective to cyber leadership
Tags: ai, awareness, business, cisco, ciso, cloud, compliance, computer, cyber, cybersecurity, data, governance, group, hacking, Hardware, intelligence, jobs, network, office, penetration-testing, privacy, psychology, risk, risk-management, skills, software, startup, strategy, supply-chain, technology, tool, vulnerabilityRona Michele Spiegel’s journey to cybersecurity might seem unconventional to some: She studied the arts. But as someone who grew up when computers first appeared and everyone wanted to experiment with them, she did a lot of multimedia work. She was always interested in technology and discussed with art colleagues about where the world was…
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Iran’s partial internet shutdown may be a windfall for cybersecurity intel
only available launchpads. A connection from the Ministry of Agriculture might not be a farmer. It’s likely a tunnel for a state actor who needs an exit node.”Ranjbar said the removal of the traffic from millions of routine Iranian business and residential users allows a powerful visibility into Iranian government traffic patterns, thereby allowing SOCs…
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Cybersecurity risk will accelerate this year, fueled in part by AI, says World Economic Forum
Tags: ai, attack, automation, business, ceo, ciso, control, country, cryptography, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, detection, exploit, finance, framework, fraud, governance, healthcare, incident, infrastructure, international, middle-east, phishing, ransomware, resilience, risk, service, skills, software, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, vulnerabilityAI is anticipated to be the most significant driver of change in cybersecurity in 2026, according to 94% of survey respondents;87% of respondents said AI-related vulnerabilities had increased in the past year. Other cyber risks that had increased were (in order) cyber-enabled fraud and phishing, supply chain disruption, and exploitation of software vulnerabilities;confidence in national cyber…
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We’re Hiring: Hacking Groups Recruit Teens While Feds Want to Ground Them
Explore the troubling trend of teenagers being recruited into hacking groups, the challenges in countering this rise, and the efforts to redirect their skills towards ethical hacking. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/01/were-hiring-hacking-groups-recruit-teens-while-feds-want-to-ground-them/