{"id":221407,"date":"2026-03-08T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/how-ai-assistants-are-moving-the-security-goalposts-krebs-on-security\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T20:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T00:20:13","slug":"how-ai-assistants-are-moving-the-security-goalposts-krebs-on-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/how-ai-assistants-are-moving-the-security-goalposts-krebs-on-security\/","title":{"rendered":"How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts \u2013 Krebs on Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2026\/03\/how-ai-assistants-are-moving-the-security-goalposts\/\">How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts \u2013 Krebs on Security<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2026\/03\/how-ai-assistants-are-moving-the-security-goalposts\/\">https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2026\/03\/how-ai-assistants-are-moving-the-security-goalposts\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-08 19:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"krebsonsecurity.com\">krebsonsecurity.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AI-based assistants or \u201cagents\u201d \u2014 autonomous programs that have access to the user\u2019s computer, files, online services and can automate virtually any task \u2014 are growing in popularity with developers and IT workers. But as so many eyebrow-raising headlines over the past few weeks have shown, these powerful and assertive new tools are rapidly shifting the security priorities for organizations, while blurring the lines between data and code, trusted co-worker and insider threat, ninja hacker and novice code jockey.<\/p>\n<p>The new hotness in AI-based assistants \u2014 <strong>OpenClaw<\/strong> (formerly known as <strong>ClawdBot<\/strong> and <strong>Moltbot<\/strong>) \u2014 has seen rapid adoption since its release in November 2025. OpenClaw is an open-source autonomous AI agent designed to run locally on your computer and proactively take actions on your behalf without needing to be prompted.<\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-73288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The OpenClaw logo.<\/p>\n<p>If that sounds like a risky proposition or a dare, consider that OpenClaw is most useful when it has complete access to your entire digital life, where it can then manage your inbox and calendar, execute programs and tools, browse the Internet for information, and integrate with chat apps like Discord, Signal, Teams or WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>Other more established AI assistants like Anthropic\u2019s <strong>Claude<\/strong> and Microsoft\u2019s <strong>Copilot<\/strong> also can do these things, but OpenClaw isn\u2019t just a passive digital butler waiting for commands. Rather, it\u2019s designed to take the initiative on your behalf based on what it knows about your life and its understanding of what you want done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe testimonials are remarkable,\u201d the AI security firm <strong>Snyk<\/strong> observed. \u201cDevelopers building websites from their phones while putting babies to sleep; users running entire companies through a lobster-themed AI; engineers who\u2019ve set up autonomous code loops that fix tests, capture errors through webhooks, and open pull requests, all while they\u2019re away from their desks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can probably already see how this experimental technology could&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2026\/03\/how-ai-assistants-are-moving-the-security-goalposts\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts \u2013 Krebs on Security https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2026\/03\/how-ai-assistants-are-moving-the-security-goalposts\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/openclaw.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,35],"class_list":["post-221407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-hacker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221409,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221407\/revisions\/221409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}