The National Cybersecurity Warning Center of China issues a security risk alert for OpenClaw

The monitoring data from the National Cybersecurity and Information Security Information Notification Center of China shows that there are currently over 200,000 active OpenClaw internet assets worldwide, with approximately 23,000 active OpenClaw internet assets domestically, exhibiting explosive growth, mainly concentrated in internet resource-intensive areas such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Sichuan, and Jiangsu.

A large number of OpenClaw assets exposed to the internet pose significant security risks and are likely to become prime targets for cyberattacks. Among them, the behavior of the agents is uncontrollable, making management difficult. OpenClaw agents are prone to losing control of permissions during the execution of commands, leading to unauthorized task execution and ignoring user instructions. This may result in situations such as deleting user data, stealing user information, and taking over user terminal devices, causing significant economic losses.