Cybersecurity

On the same day OpenClaw shipped v2026.3.7 with a breaking authentication change, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued a formal cybersecurity risk warning for the platform. It’s the first government-level regulatory warning about OpenClaw from a major economy — and the timing makes it impossible to ignore. What the Warning Says The MIIT warning, published to China’s National Vulnerability Database (nvdb.org.cn), identifies a clear threat vector: OpenClaw instances configured with default settings, or configured improperly, are vulnerable to cyberattacks and information leaks. ...

The agentic AI capabilities the security community has been building are now being used by adversaries. Microsoft’s Global Threat Intelligence team confirmed this week that criminal groups and nation-state actors are deploying AI agents to autonomously handle attack operations — and the scale is accelerating. What Microsoft Is Seeing In a Thursday interview with The Register, Sherrod DeGrippo, Microsoft’s General Manager of Global Threat Intelligence, described a clear behavioral shift in how sophisticated adversaries operate: ...