S0:E27 — The Agentic Ransomware Story That Wasn't
Palo Alto's Unit 42 published a report describing a fully automated, agentic AI ransomware attack, complete with an 80-page lessons-learned document the attackers supposedly left behind for the victim. It got picked up and ran with by outlets looking for the AI-apocalypse angle. Jess and Jake go through what the report actually says versus what got exaggerated in the retelling, and call out the pattern of vendors using AI-attack framing to sell their own AI-defense product.
Second half: a stolen API key with no spending cap burned through hundreds of thousands of dollars in usage before…
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