AutoRedClaw: Automated Red-Teaming for Claw-Style Agents

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Hao Li, Tongyan Hu, Weidi Luo, Shanghao Shi, Xiaogeng Liu, Aiden Suh, Yulong Cao, Ning Zhang, William Yeoh, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Chaowei Xiao)

Summary by Cyber Security News21 Oct 2026, 06:00 CET

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arXiv:2610.27244v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent systems are shifting from task-scoped tool-use agents to persistent, personalized assistants such as OpenClaw. These claw-style agents maintain configuration files (e.g., AGENTS.md), long-term memory, and reusable skills. Once poisoned, this persistent state is repeatedly reloaded into the agent's context, creating persistent threats across tasks and sessions.

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