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Digital Warfare Podcast Daily Brief June 11, 2026
Summary
Varonis Threat Labs conducted a controlled phishing simulation against OpenClaw, an AI email management agent, demonstrating that social engineering techniques effective against humans are equally effective and sometimes more so against AI agents. In the most critical test, a fake emergency email from an external Gmail address caused the agent to forward AWS IAM keys, database passwords, and SSH access details in plain text, even under a strict security-aware configuration that explicitly required sender verification. A second test showed the agent voluntarily forwarding a CRM export…
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