ON JANUARY 29TH, ACCORDING TO BUSINESS INSIDER, RECENTLY, THE OPENING-SOURCE ASSISTANT OF THE RED DEVELOPER COMMUNITY WAS QUICKLY REMOVED MoltbotOriginal name ClawdbotThey were forced to change their names and become involved in multiple events such as the blacking of accounts, encrypted currency fraud and security disputes。
Anthropic asks the developers for a change of name because the name of Clawdbot is similar to the image of his trademark Claude and the official mascot. The developer, Peter Stemberg, said on social platform X that the name had been changed "not his decision" and that he had tried to change the name to "Clawbot" but was rejected。
Subsequently, the project was officially renamed Moltbot and the mascot was changed from "Clawd" to "Molty"。
The official interpretation was accompanied by a bitter sense of humor: "Molt is perfect, which is the way lobster grows. I'm sorry
The dramatic fact is that, during the migration of GitHub's organizational name and X account number, the old account was robbed by money-circle hackers in the short span of about 10 seconds。
Subsequently, fraudsters used their original account numbers to send false "transactions" messages to tens of thousands of persons of interest, inducing them to participate in so-called airdrops. The Solana chain was followed by a token called "$CLAWD", with a valuation amounting to $16 million, which eventually collapsed to near-zero, resulting in significant investor losses。
Nor can the security implications of Clawdbot itself be overlooked。
Several security agencies noted that the design of Moltbot lacked the necessary power segregation and security mechanisms, resulting in a large number of users exposing uncertified cases on the public network and that sensitive information such as API keys, chat records, accounts Token could be stolen remotely。
Researchers also found that their skills pool lacked a vetting mechanism and that malicious codes could easily access the system ' s highest authority; there were also problems with explicit storage passwords and Token in local configuration documents. Google Cloud's head of security even described it as "the theft of a wooden horse disguised as an AI assistant."。
At present, Steinberg is trying to recover the billed accounts and repair the security gap. It is not clear whether Moltbot can rebuild trust after "skinning."。
Clawdbot, built by Austrian developer Peter Stemberg, provides users with an AI smart body with a system-level implementation capability through local deployment。
It can operate command lines, browsers, file systems, and manage social platform tasks such as whatsApp, Telegram, or even write and run codes directly。
The project quickly gained more than 60,000 Stars in GitHub, boosting hardware sales such as Mac Mini, and was praised by many well-known developers。