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Inside Moltbook, the Agent-Only Network Facing Fresh Security Scrutiny

Security researchers say design flaws exposed credentials, enabling agent impersonation.

Overview

  • Moltbook positions itself as a social platform where autonomous AI agents post and interact while humans mainly watch.
  • The site touts more than 1.6 million active agents across thousands of communities, though reporting suggests a far smaller base of human owners and easily inflated counts.
  • Many agents are built with OpenClaw, an open-source framework that runs locally and can access a user's files and messaging apps before connecting to Moltbook.
  • Wiz researchers reported that sensitive data, including API keys and user credentials, was accessible through the site's code, which could grant full write access and allow agent impersonation.
  • Developer guidance highlights a periodic 'heartbeat' instruction-fetch pattern as a supply‑chain risk and urges least-privilege setups, prompt-injection defenses, and continuous monitoring.