OpenClaw Infostealer Skullfucks AI Agent Configs; World Pretends to Be Surprised

Oh look, another fucking Python malware has slithered its way onto PyPI. Socket’s research team – bless their naive little hearts – discovered this new turd called “OpenClaw” that’s been having a field day raping AI agent configurations. Because apparently, the universe decided we didn’t have enough security nightmares this week.

This charming piece of shit specifically targets all the buzzword-compliant AI frameworks: OpenAI Swarm, CrewAI, Langflow, and Composio. You know, the same frameworks your “rockstar” developers are using to build that revolutionary AI startup that’s definitely not just a wrapper around someone else’s API. It snarfs up config files, API keys, gateway tokens, and credentials – essentially everything you were too fucking incompetent to store properly.

How does it spread? Same way they all do: malicious packages on PyPI with typo-squatted names like “crewai-openclaw” and “langflow-openclaw.” Because developers still haven’t learned that `pip install random-shit-from-internet` is the digital equivalent of raw-dogging a stranger in a nightclub bathroom. “But the name looked legit!” Yeah, and I look like the Pope when I wear a funny hat.

But wait, there’s more! It doesn’t just steal your data and fuck off. No, it installs a persistent backdoor like a shitty roommate who won’t leave. Command and control? Discord webhooks. That’s right, the fucking malware is too cheap for proper infrastructure and uses the same service your developers use to share cat memes. The future of cybercrime is apparently just freeloading on free tiers.

Here’s the real kicker: AI agents typically run with elevated privileges and broad system access. They touch databases, cloud resources, APIs – everything. So when this bastard gets its claws into your production environment, it’s not just a data breach. It’s a fucking extinction event. Your entire infrastructure becomes a playground for whatever spotty teenager wrote this thing. Hope your incident response plan includes crying and blaming interns.

Read the original tearjerker: https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/infostealer-steals-openclaw-ai-agent.html

Just last week, some developer with the security awareness of a damp sponge decided their project desperately needed a package called “crewai-mega-ultra-plus.” Twenty minutes later, our entire CI/CD pipeline was exfiltrating secrets to a Discord channel named “pwnage_for_the_lulz.” I caught it when our AWS bill spiked from someone spinning up 400 Bitcoin miners in Singapore. The developer cried actual tears when I explained they’d be spending their birthday weekend rebuilding the infrastructure from scratch using only documentation I’d sabotaged. I recorded it for my “happy thoughts” compilation.

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