Top AI tools such as OpenClaw and Github Copilot can be hijacked to create new massive botnets
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Hallucination-driven botnet formation means AI coding assistants are now part of the attack surface, not just a productivity tool. Security teams need to treat model prompts and outputs like untrusted code paths and add guardrails, scanning, and policy around AI-suggested dependencies and scripts.
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