ClawJacked: Because We Obviously Needed Another AI Security Clusterfuck

Oh brilliant. Just fucking brilliant. Some over-caffeinated, VC-funded wanker has only gone and built OpenClaw—a local AI agent that exposes itself via WebSocket to any bastard website that asks nicely, completely forgetting that the internet is roughly 90% malicious scripted gibberish designed by people who’d sell their own grandmother for three Bitcoin and a Red Bull.

The vulnerability, creatively named “ClawJacked” by researchers who clearly have the patience of saints and the alcohol tolerance of a distillery, works like this: You, being a complete tool, install this shiny local AI assistant to automate your spreadsheet or write your shitty TPS reports. Meanwhile, the developers—who probably think security is something that happens to other people—neglected to implement proper origin validation or authentication on the WebSocket endpoint. So now any malicious website you visit can connect directly to localhost and start issuing commands to your “secure” local agent.

Yes, you read that right. You click on a link in a phishing email promising nude pictures of the latest celebrity or a “one weird trick” to enlarge your anatomy, and suddenly that AI instance with access to your files, your passwords, and your browser is taking orders from Boris in Belarus who wants to encrypt your hard drive and sell the decryption key for fifty quid and a bag of crisps.

The root cause is the usual cocktail of incompetence and hubris: Same-Origin Policy treated as a “guideline” rather than a wall, combined with the modern developer’s irresistible urge to connect fucking everything to the internet without asking “should we?” first. It’s like installing a cat-flap in a submarine because the marketing team thought “seamless connectivity” sounded good in a slide deck.

Patch your shit, uninstall OpenClaw until they fix their amateur-hour security model, or better yet, learn to use a keyboard without needing a neural network to hold your hand. And for the love of Christ, stop letting every Silicon Valley dipshit run arbitrary code on your machine just because they promise to “disrupt” your to-do list.

https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/clawjacked-flaw-lets-malicious-sites.html

Speaking of WebSocket shitshows, this reminds me of the time the PFY decided to “modernize” the office coffee machine by hooking it up to the local network so people could order flat whites via browser requests. Within six hours, some script-kiddie in Romania had it dispensing boiling water into the ethernet port trying to mine Monero on the embedded ARM chip. I solved the problem by rewiring the PFY’s chair to deliver 240 volts every time someone mentioned “IoT” or “smart devices.” He twitched for a week and lost control of his bladder, but the coffee machine stayed off the network. Worth it.

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