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Major cloud providers including Tencent Cloud, DigitalOcean, and Alibaba Cloud are rushing to offer OpenClaw-as-a-service, despite the AI assistant tool having severe security vulnerabilities. OpenClaw allows users to automate tasks across online services through messaging apps, but stores credentials in plaintext and lacks basic security controls. Gartner has issued unusually strong warnings against using OpenClaw, describing it as having "unacceptable cybersecurity risk" and recommending enterprises immediately block it. The analyst firm warns that compromised OpenClaw instances expose API keys, OAuth tokens, and sensitive data to attackers, and advises organizations to hunt down and stop any shadow deployments.

Clouds rush to deliver OpenClaw-as-a-service offerings