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Sead Fadilpašić

Multiple malicious OpenClaw skills found online - including two macOS infostealers

Microsoft OpenClaw.
  • Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 found five malicious “skills” on ClawHub, OpenClaw’s official marketplace, delivering infostealers and fraud
  • Threat actors bypassed VirusTotal/ClawScan checks with inflated file sizes and evasive techniques, showing persistent supply chain risk
  • All malicious skills were removed and accounts banned; researchers urge strict provenance validation and source code audits for published packages

ClawHub is the latest marketplace hackers are poisoning with malware, in an attempt to compromise software developers and other advanced users. Earlier this week, security researchers from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 team disclosed finding, and reporting, five “skills” on that marketplace, that sought to infect their users with infostealer malware.

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