Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users

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Re: Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users

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Post by imiric » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 3:34 AM UTC

dispersed wrote: post #82

tietjens wrote: post #26

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What is suspicious? What was “pushed”? The demand for a personal assistant AI bot is real. Even if I don’t personally share it.

One could reasonably ask: out of the hundreds (thousands?) of similar "personal AI assistant" tools out there, why did this specific one blow up so dramatically and in such a short period of time? https://www.star-history.com/#openclaw/openclaw&type=date&le... But to be clear, I'm saying I don't think this is especially suspicious, because actual AI companies are releasing products in exactly the same way, with warni…

GitHub stars are not a reliable metric[1]. Neither is engagement on social media, which is ridden with bots. It would be safe to assume that a project promoting bots is also using them to appear popular.

This whole thing is a classic pump and dump scheme, which this technology has made easier and more accessible than ever. I wouldn't be surprised if the malware authors are the same people behind these projects.

[1]: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-31-milli...

Re: Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users

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Post by throwup238 » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 1:52 PM UTC

DataDive wrote: post #79

throwup238 wrote: post #43

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Are you thinking of Agent Smith in the Matrix? > I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural reso…

Great monologue, shaky biology. Viruses do not multiply endlessly. Most viruses exist in stable ecological cycles. Most viruses are beneficial to life. We complain about the few (and tiny minority of viruses) that infect humans and we do so from a selfish perspective, but forget about all the other that make life and evolution possible. As a matter of fact evolution favors reduced lethality in many cases because wipi…

The bit about mammals is wildly off base too. Boom and bust dynamics are built into most animal populations (i.e. red tailed deer in the northeastern US). Pretty much the only examples I can think of that don't experience those cycles live in very isolated environments like caves or have very long lifespans and large parental investment but even then the dynamic is only dampened, not eliminated entirely.

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