Researchers Find 40,000+ Exposed OpenClaw Instances

**SecurityScorecard warns that over 40,000 OpenClaw AI assistant instances (28,663 unique IPs) are publicly exposed due to misconfiguration, with 63% of deployments vulnerable, 12,812 exploitable via remote code execution, three high-severity CVEs with public exploits, evidence of prior breach activity, risks from prompt injection, and leaked third-party API keys — all creating significant risk of full host compromise and downstream impact on multiple industries.**