OpenClaw saga continues, React Native Community vulnerability, Notepad++ & GTIG targets IPIDEA proxy network / Intel Chat [#291]

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.

• OpenClaw, an open source AI agent formerly known as MoltBot and ClawdBot, has rapidly become the fastest-growing project on GitHub, amassing over 113,000 stars in under a week.
• A critical vulnerability in the React Native Community CLI NPM package, tracked as CVE-2025-11953 with a CVSS score of 9.8, has been actively exploited in the wild since late December 2025, according to new findings by VulnCheck. JFrog article.
• Following the disclosure in the Notepad++ v8.8.9 release announcement, further investigation confirmed a sophisticated supply chain attack that targeted the application's update mechanism.
• Google, in coordination with multiple partners, has undertaken a large-scale disruption effort targeting the IPIDEA proxy network, which it identifies as one of the largest residential proxy networks globally.

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