{"id":191618,"date":"2026-02-28T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/clawjacked-flaw-lets-malicious-sites-hijack-local-openclaw-ai-agents-via-websocket\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T13:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:10:14","slug":"clawjacked-flaw-lets-malicious-sites-hijack-local-openclaw-ai-agents-via-websocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/clawjacked-flaw-lets-malicious-sites-hijack-local-openclaw-ai-agents-via-websocket\/","title":{"rendered":"ClawJacked Flaw Lets Malicious Sites Hijack Local OpenClaw AI Agents via WebSocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/clawjacked-flaw-lets-malicious-sites.html\">ClawJacked Flaw Lets Malicious Sites Hijack Local OpenClaw AI Agents via WebSocket<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/clawjacked-flaw-lets-malicious-sites.html\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/clawjacked-flaw-lets-malicious-sites.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-28 12:21:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"thehackernews.com\">thehackernews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OpenClaw has patched a critical security vulnerability known as ClawJacked that allowed attackers to gain control over a locally running AI agent by exploiting a loophole in the OpenClaw core system.<\/li>\n<li>The vulnerability involved malicious JavaScript opening a WebSocket connection to the AI gateway, bypassing protections and gaining admin-level permissions.<\/li>\n<li>The issue highlighted significant risks posed by AI agents that have broad access to enterprise systems, calling for strict governance for non-human entities.<\/li>\n<li>Multiple additional vulnerabilities, including remote code execution and log poisoning, have also been discovered and resolved in recent OpenClaw updates.<\/li>\n<li>Malicious skills have been identified on the ClawHub marketplace, which serves as a conduit for attacks like Atomic Stealer malware and cryptocurrency scams.<\/li>\n<li>Users are urged to audit skills before installation, avoid exposing credentials unnecessarily, and continuously monitor agent interactions.<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft has issued a security advisory cautioning against running OpenClaw on personal or enterprise workstations due to the significant risks associated with self-hosted agent runtimes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ClawJacked Flaw Lets Malicious Sites Hijack Local OpenClaw AI Agents via WebSocket https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/clawjacked-flaw-lets-malicious-sites.html Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhMEZ7gMViZ9XlXs35FiyviBZR19FbDXmatfjhNRw59daWLw41ScorGKG3xXYWFD6dDuYHajwoUnkWgQV9SrPe9iiV8UqDVjw4K5hX8cng7VDPTsljAZazuxUDdk7_hZ7SFV9rDCxNcYNWjmEY_lUVj01-PEI9D9rY5tMYJZTP5X887UuXOsDD90UOvo_mG\/s1600\/opem.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191620,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191618\/revisions\/191620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}