Beijing, Feb 5, 2026, 21:25 China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a warning Thursday about the fast-growing OpenClaw open-source AI agent, highlighting serious security risks if it’s misconfigured. Poor setups could expose users to cyberattacks and data breaches. The ministry stopped short of banning OpenClaw but urged organizations to review their public network exposure and strengthen identity authentication and access controls. Since its November launch, OpenClaw’s popularity has surged, prompting Chinese cloud giants like Alibaba’s Alicloud, Tencent Cloud, and Baidu to offer remote hosting services instead of running it locally.
