Risky Business #823 -- Humans impersonate clawdbots impersonating humans
MentionsFortinetIvantiMicrosoftSolarWinds
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Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau are joined by the newest guy on the Risky Business Media team, James WIlson. They discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Notepad++ update supply chain attack has been attributed to China The AI agent future is even more stupid than expected; behold the OpenClaw/Clawdbot/Moltbook mess The Epstein files claim he had a personal hacker? Microsoft is finally getting ready to (think about starting to begin to) disable NTLM by default The usual bugs in the usual things! Ivanti, Fortinet, and Solarwinds. Again.
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- AttackSupply-chain attackCompromising a vendor, library or update so the attack reaches all of its customers at once.
- TechnologyAI agentAn AI model that acts on its own: it plans steps, uses tools and takes actions, not just answers.
- ProtocolNTLMAn older Windows authentication protocol, still widely used and easy to relay.