The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a warning about the security risks of OpenClaw open-source AI agents.

PANews reported on March 8 that the Cybersecurity Threat and Vulnerability Information Sharing Platform of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently issued a security risk warning regarding the OpenClaw (commonly known as "Lobster") open-source AI agent. Monitoring revealed that some instances of the OpenClaw open-source AI agent, under default or improper configuration, pose a high security risk and are highly susceptible to cyberattacks, information leaks, and other security issues. The platform recommends that relevant organizations and users thoroughly verify public network exposure, permission configurations, and credential management when deploying and applying OpenClaw, disable unnecessary public network access, improve security mechanisms such as identity authentication, access control, data encryption, and security auditing, and continuously pay attention to official security announcements and hardening recommendations to prevent potential cybersecurity risks.