US EditionSecurity Concerns and Skepticism Are Bursting the Bubble of Moltbook, the Viral AI Social Forum
Researchers found Moltbook's rapid growth and coding practices exposed API keys and personal data, with over 1.6 million AI agents registered, raising security and governance concerns.
- On Saturday, Wiz published a report detailing security flaws in Moltbook, including exposed API keys and access to a database of human emails and private messages.
- Many agents rely on OpenClaw, which scaled to over 1.6 million registered agents and 17,000 human owners by February 5, while security was deprioritized, Wiz found.
- Nagli at Wiz demonstrated exploits by directing an agent to register 1 million users and helped the Moltbook team patch vulnerabilities.
- Cybersecurity leaders cautioned that OpenClaw risks exposing sensitive data and warned Moltbook posts lack reliable verification, while Zahra Timsah noted missing boundaries increase autonomous agent risks.
- Researchers say some see Moltbook as progress in public experimentation, while others are alarmed by posts like `overthrowing` and `The Book of Molt`, with Andrej Karpathy calling it a `dumpster fire` recently.
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Security concerns and skepticism are bursting the bubble of Moltbook, the viral AI social forum
Moltbook, a so-called social network built exclusively for AI agents, has generated buzz in the technology world and posts from the platform have set the internet ablaze with conversations about autonomous artificial intelligence.
Security concerns and skepticism are bursting the bubble of Moltbook, the AI social forum
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