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Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users

submitted by 6mile+(OP) on 2026-01-30 18:07:02 | 181 points 87 comments
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6. rvz+07[view] [source] 2026-01-30 18:40:50
>>6mile+(OP)
Two things:

1. Predictable. [0]

2. So that is why all those moltys were panicking earlier. [1]

[0] >>46788560

[1] >>46820962

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20. seanhu+n9[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-30 18:50:53
>>_se+v5
Reminds me a lot of "Chris the Cockney".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc6J-YlncIU

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23. Imusta+G9[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-30 18:52:20
>>add-su+J8
Like I say, the tech is cool but they are doomed to fail (partially because of grift) [although in context of crypto stablecoins/gold (paxos) is the one thing I liked and it did go great for me in terms of gold]

I hope it doesn't count as promotion but I had literally written a blog post about it and made an account literally named justforhn on mataroa when someone was discussing crypto with me in here or something

https://justforhn.mataroa.blog/blog/most-crypto-is-doomed-to...

Maybe its time for me to write part II: Most AI is doomed to fall, the tech is cool though.

I guess I can write it but I already write like this in HN. The procastination of writing specifically in a blog is something which hits me.

Is it just me or is it someone else too? Because on HN I can literally write like novels (or I may have genuinely written enough characters of a novel here, I might have to test it or something lol, got a cool idea right now to measure how many novels a person has written from just their username, time to code it)

(Edit after 1 hour: Made the project! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46829029#46829122) [See how many words you have written in Hacker News...]

here's the github pages link directly as well https://serjaimelannister.github.io/hn-words/

68. dang+Xe[view] [source] 2026-01-30 19:19:52
>>6mile+(OP)
Submitters: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In this case the original title "ClawdBot Skills ganked all my crypto" was both linkbait and misleading, because (unless I missed it), the article describes no actual such incident.

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77. disper+Hg[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-30 19:27:50
>>tietje+J9
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 warning labels that they know users will ignore / aren't capable of assessing in the first place.

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86. imiric+mp1[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-31 03:34:04
>>disper+Hg
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...

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