Modern Cyber with Jeremy Snyder

In this episode of This Week in AI Security for February 19, 2026, Jeremy covers an action-packed week with eight major stories exploring the fragile nature of AI safety alignment, critical platform hacks, and geopolitical AI developments.
Key Stories & Developments:
G-Obliteration Attack: Microsoft security researchers discovered a one-prompt training technique that strips safety alignment from LLMs. By leveraging Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), attackers can use a single mild prompt to cause cross-category generalization of harm. This effectively removes guardrails across 15 open-source models while preserving their utility.
Orchids Vibe-Coding Hack: A BBC reporter was hacked on Orchids, a popular "vibe-coding" platform. A security researcher demonstrated a malicious code injection that compromised the user's development environment.
AI vs. Legacy Email Security: AI-powered cyberattacks are successfully bypassing 88% of legacy email security systems. Attackers are utilizing LLMs to generate highly authentic phishing and impersonation content at scale.
AI Doctors Evade Privacy Rules: AI-powered health services are not subject to the same strict privacy regulations as traditional healthcare facilities. This raises concerns around data leaks and medical hallucinations.
OpenClaw Info Stealer: A variant of the Vidar info-stealer is targeting the OpenClaw ecosystem. The attack aims to exfiltrate configuration files and gateway authentication tokens.
OpenClaw Founder Joins OpenAI: Peter Steinberger, the creator of the OpenClaw framework, has joined OpenAI. The OpenClaw project will transition to an open-source foundation supported by OpenAI.
Claude's Geopolitical Role: Reports indicate that Anthropic's Claude was utilized via the Palantir platform during a US military raid in Venezuela. This raid led to the capture of Nicolas Maduro.
ASIS AI Safety Report 2026: The International AI Safety Report highlights three emerging risks. These include the lowered barrier for biological weapons, the surge in deepfakes and fraud, and the difficulty of safety research.
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Episode Links
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/02/09/prompt-attack-breaks-llm-safety/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4wnw04e8wo
https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/2026/02/09/study-ai-powered-cyber-attacks-hit-88-of-legacy-email-security-systems/177694/
https://cyberscoop.com/ai-healthcare-apps-hipaa-privacy-risks-openai-anthropic/
https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/infostealer-steals-openclaw-ai-agent.html
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/15/openclaw-creator-peter-steinberger-joins-openai/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/14/us-military-anthropic-ai-model-claude-venezuela-raid
https://www.asisonline.org/security-management-magazine/latest-news/today-in-security/2026/february/2026-international-safety-report/

In this episode of This Week in AI Security, Jeremy covers a concise but critical set of stories for the week of February 12, 2026. From physical world prompt injections targeting autonomous vehicles to massive data leaks in consumer AI wrappers, the intersection of AI and infrastructure remains the primary battleground.
Key Stories & Developments:
Prompt Injecting Autonomous Vehicles: Researchers at UCSC and Johns Hopkins have demonstrated that autonomous cars and drones can be compromised by "visual" prompt injections placed on physical signs, causing them to ignore traffic rules or misinterpret their surroundings.
Massive Chat App Leak: The "Chat & Ask AI" wrapper application exposed 300 million messages belonging to 25 million users due to a simple Firebase misconfiguration that allowed unauthenticated access to read, modify, and delete data.
Docker AI Metadata Attacks: A new vulnerability in Docker's AI assistant allows attackers to trigger exploits by planting malicious instructions within container image metadata.
Claude Opus 4.6 vs. Security: Anthropic's latest model, Claude Opus 4.6, has demonstrated a frightening new capability: finding high-severity vulnerabilities and logic bugs via reasoning (rather than fuzzing) without needing specialized prompting or scaffolding.

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Episode Links
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/30/road_sign_hijack_ai/
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/02/ai-chat-app-leak-exposes-300-million-messages-tied-to-25-million-users
https://www.govinfosecurity.com/docker-ai-bug-lets-image-metadata-trigger-attacks-a-30709
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/05/anthropic-claude-opus-46-software-hunting
https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/

In this first episode of February 2026, Jeremy breaks down a high-stakes week in AI security, featuring critical framework flaws, cloud-native exploits, and a major security warning regarding a popular autonomous AI agent.
Key Stories & Developments:
Operation Bizarre Bazaar: Threat actors are actively targeting exposed LLM infrastructure to steal computing resources for cryptocurrency mining and resell API access on dark markets, attempting to pivot into internal systems via compromised MCP servers.
Gemini MCP Tool Exploit: A critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability was identified in a Gemini Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool, highlighting the recurring theme that the infrastructure powering LLMs remains a primary weak point.
MoltBook API Leak: Researchers discovered a hardcoded Supabase API key in "MoltBook," a social network for AI agents. This flaw granted unauthenticated access to the entire production database, exposing over 1.5 million API keys.
Bondu AI Toy Breach: A privacy failure in an AI-powered dinosaur toy left 50,000 chat log records exposed to anyone with a Gmail account, underscoring the lack of robust authentication in consumer AI IoT devices.
CISA Chief's Data Mishandling: Reports surfaced that the acting head of the country's cyber defense agency uploaded sensitive "official use only" documents into a public version of ChatGPT, bypassing enterprise controls and security protocols.

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Episode Links
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-hijack-exposed-llm-endpoints-in-bizarre-bazaar-operation/
https://darkwebinformer.com/cve-2026-0755-reported-zero-day-in-gemini-mcp-tool-could-allow-remote-code-execution/
https://www.wiz.io/blog/exposed-moltbook-database-reveals-millions-of-api-keys
https://ai.plainenglish.io/clawdbot-security-guide-de77b45ab719
https://blackoutvpn.au/blog/dont-buy-internet-connected-toys
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/cisa-madhu-gottumukkala-chatgpt-00749361

In this final episode of January 2026, Jeremy breaks down a high-stakes week in AI security, featuring critical framework flaws, cloud-native exploits, and a major security warning regarding a popular autonomous AI agent.
Key Stories & Developments:
Chainlit Framework Flaws: Two critical CVEs were identified in Chainlit, a popular Python package for building enterprise chatbots. These vulnerabilities, including Arbitrary File Read and Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF), highlight the supply chain risks inherent in the rapidly growing AI development ecosystem.
Google Gemini Workspace Exploit: Researchers demonstrated how Gemini can be manipulated via malicious calendar invites. By embedding hidden instructions (similar to Ascii or emoji smuggling), attackers can trick the AI into exfiltrating sensitive user data, such as meeting details and attachments.
VS Code "Spyware" Plugins: Over 1.5 million developers were potentially exposed to malicious VS Code extensions impersonating ChatGPT. These plugins serve as "watering hole" attacks designed to harvest sensitive environment variables, credentials, and deployment keys.
Vertex AI Privilege Escalation: A novel attack chain in Google’s Vertex AI was disclosed. Attackers used a malicious reverse shell in a reasoning engine function to escalate privileges via the Instance Metadata Service, gaining master access to chat sessions, storage buckets, and logs.
The "Cloudbot" Warning: A deep dive into Cloudbot (now rebranded as ClawdBot), a general-purpose AI agent. Researchers found hundreds of instances sitting wide open on the internet, many providing full root shell access and exposing personal conversation histories and API keys.
Episode Links
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/20/ai_framework_flaws_enterprise_clouds/
https://www.securityweek.com/weaponized-invite-enabled-calendar-data-theft-via-google-gemini/
https://cybernews.com/security/fake-chatgpt-vscode-extensions-compromised-developers/
https://gbhackers.com/google-vertex-ai-flaw/
https://www.insurancejournal.com/magazines/mag-features/2026/01/26/855293.htm
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.10338
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/everything-you-need-to-know-about-viral-personal-ai-assistant-clawdbot-now-moltbot/
https://securityboulevard.com/2026/01/clawdbot-is-what-happens-when-ai-gets-root-access-a-security-experts-take-on-silicon-valleys-hottest-ai-agent/
https://jpcaparas.medium.com/hundreds-of-clawdbot-instances-were-exposed-on-the-internet-heres-how-to-not-be-one-of-them-63fa813e6625
https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/moltbot-security-alert-exposed-clawdbot-control-panels-risk-credential-leaks-and-account-takeovers

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In this episode of Modern Cyber, Jeremy is joined by Sydney Marrone, a premier expert in the field of threat hunting and the Head of Threat Hunting at Nebulock. The conversation explores the rapidly evolving intersection of threat hunting and artificial intelligence, specifically focusing on how AI agents are transforming the speed and efficacy of defensive operations.
Sydney shares her journey from "crawling under desks" in IT to building elite threat hunting teams at major organizations like Lumen (formerly CenturyLink) and Splunk. She breaks down her newly released Agentic Threat Hunting Framework (ATHF) and the LOCK pattern (Learn, Observe, Check, Keep), explaining how AI can condense a hunt that previously took four weeks into a mere 45 minutes. They also discuss the critical need for AI governance, the risks of "ungoverned access," and why "trust but verify" remains the golden rule when integrating LLMs into security workflows.
About Sydney Marrone
Sydney Marrone is the Head of Threat Hunting at Nebulock and a co-founder of the THOR Collective. With over a decade of experience in incident response, forensics, and blue teaming, she has become a leading voice in structured threat hunting. Sydney is the author of the Agentic Threat Hunting Framework (ATHF) and the co-author of the PEAK Threat Hunting Framework, which won a SANS award for its contribution to the community.
A respected author and educator, Sydney co-authored The Threat Hunter's Cookbook and is currently developing a SANS course focused on threat hunting. Her work focuses on moving organizations from reactive to proactive security postures through advanced data science, automation, and authentic AI integration.
Episode Links
Nebulock (AI-Powered Threat Hunting): https://nebulock.io/
Agentic Threat Hunting Framework (ATHF): https://github.com/Nebulock-Inc/agentic-threat-hunting-framework
THOR Collective (Substack & Community): https://dispatch.thorcollective.com/
PEAK Threat Hunting Framework: https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/security/peak-threat-hunting-framework.html
HEARTH Repository (THOR Collective): https://github.com/THORCollective/HEARTH
Threat Hunting MCP Server: https://github.com/THORCollective/threat-hunting-mcp-server