{"id":207191,"date":"2026-01-27T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/clawdbot-becomes-moltbot-but-cant-shed-security-concerns-the-register\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T19:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:35:08","slug":"clawdbot-becomes-moltbot-but-cant-shed-security-concerns-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/clawdbot-becomes-moltbot-but-cant-shed-security-concerns-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Clawdbot becomes Moltbot, but can\u2019t shed security concerns \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clawdbot becomes Moltbot, but can\u2019t shed security concerns \u2022 The Register<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/01\/27\/clawdbot_moltbot_security_concerns\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-01-27 13:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.theregister.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Security concerns for the new agentic AI tool formerly known as Clawdbot remain, despite a rebrand prompted by trademark concerns raised by Anthropic. Would you be comfortable handing the keys to your identity kingdom over to a bot, one that might be exposed to the open internet?<\/p>\n

Clawdbot, now known as Moltbot, has gone viral in AI and developer circles in recent days, with fans hailing the open-source “AI personal assistant” as a potential breakthrough.<\/p>\n

The long and short of it is that Moltbot can be controlled using messaging apps, like WhatsApp and Telegram, in a similar way to the GenAI chatbots everyone knows about.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Taking things a little further, its agentic capabilities allow it to take care of life admin for users, such as responding to emails, managing calendars, screening phone calls, or booking table reservations \u2013 all with minimal intervention or prompting from the user.<\/p>\n

All that functionality comes at a cost, however, and not just the outlay so many seem to be making on Mac Mini purchases for the sole purpose of hosting a Moltbot instance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In order for Moltbot to read and respond to emails, and all the rest of it, it needs access to accounts and their credentials. Users are handing over the keys to their encrypted messenger apps, phone numbers, and bank accounts to this agentic system.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Naturally, security experts have had a few things to say about it.<\/p>\n

First, there was the furor around public exposures. Moltbot is a complex system, and despite being as easy to install as a typical app on the face of it, the misconfigurations associated with it prompted experts to highlight the dangers of running Moltbot instances without the proper know-how.<\/p>\n

Jamieson O’Reilly, founder of red-teaming company Dvuln, was among the first to draw attention to the issue, saying that he saw hundreds of Clawdbot…<\/p>\n

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