Attackers Distribute Malware Through Fake OpenClaw GitHub Repos With AI-Written READMEs and Inflated Stars
A threat actor tracked as TroyDen is running a malware campaign through fake GitHub repositories that impersonate OpenClaw tooling. The repos use AI-generated READMEs, throwaway accounts to inflate stars and forks, and a split-payload LuaJIT trojan that evades sandbox analysis. Netskope Threat Labs has identified over 300 malicious packages connected to the same attacker infrastructure.