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In this week’s Security Sprint, Dave and Andy covered the following topics:
Open:
- TribalHub 6th Annual Cybersecurity Summit, 17–20 Feb 2026, Jacksonville, Florida
- Congress reauthorizes private-public cybersecurity framework & Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 Reauthorized Through September 2026
- AMWA testifies at Senate EPW Committee hearing on cybersecurity
Main Topics:
Terrorism & Extremism
- Killers without a cause: The rise in nihilistic violent extremism — The Washington Post, 08 Feb 2026
- Terrorists’ Use of Emerging Technologies Poses Evolving Threat to International Peace, Stability, Acting UN Counter-Terrorism Chief Warns Security Council United Nations / Security Council, 04 Feb 2026
OpenClaw: The Helpful AI That Could Quietly Become Your Biggest Insider Threat – Jamf Threat Labs, 09 Feb 2026. Jamf profiles OpenClaw as an autonomous agent framework that can run on macOS and other platforms, chain actions across tools, maintain long term memory and act on high level goals by reading and writing files, calling APIs and interacting with messaging and email systems. The research warns that over privileged agents like this effectively become new insider layers once attackers capture tokens, gain access to control interfaces or introduce malicious skills, enabling data exfiltration, lateral movement and command execution that look like legitimate automation. The rise of Moltbook suggests viral AI prompts may be the next big security threat; We don’t need self-replicating AI models to have problems, just self-replicating prompts.
- From magic to malware: How OpenClaw’s agent skills become an attack surface
- Exposed Moltbook database reveals millions of API keys
- The rise of Moltbook suggests viral AI prompts may be the next big security threat
- OpenClaw & Moltbook: AI agents meet real-world attack campaigns
- Malicious MoltBot skills used to push password-stealing malware
- Moltbook reveals AI security readiness
- Moltbook exposes user data via API
- OpenClaw: Handing AI the keys to your digital life
Quick Hits:
- Active Tornado Season Expected in the US
- CISA Directs Federal Agencies to Update Edge Devices – GovInfoSecurity, 05 Feb 2026 & read more from CISA: Binding Operational Directive 26-02: Mitigating Risk From End-of-Support Edge Devices – CISA, 05 Feb 2026.
- A Technical and Ethical Post-Mortem of the Feb 2026 Harvard University ShinyHunters Data Breach
- Hackers publish personal information stolen during Harvard, UPenn data breaches
- Two Ivy League universities had donor information breaches. Will donors be notified?
- Harassment & scare tactics: why victims should never pay ShinyHunters
- Please Don’t Feed the Scattered Lapsus$ & ShinyHunters
- Mass data exfiltration campaigns lose their edge in Q4 2025
- Executive Targeting Reaches Record Levels as Threats Expand Beyond CEOs
- Notepad++ supply-chain attack: what we know
- Summary of SmarterTools Breach and SmarterMail CVEs
- Infostealers without borders: macOS, Python stealers, and platform abuse
Read more about Gate 15’s full podcast menu at our Podcast page. You can subscribe and enjoy all the Gate 15 Podcasts on Spotify for Podcasters, Apple, Spotify, as well as other locations accessible from the Spotify for Podcasters link. Week-to-week, you can hear and learn more about our all-hazards threats, risks, mitigation and other issues impacting homeland security risk management from our team as well as our regular and special guests. The full podcast menu includes:
- The Security Sprint is our weekly rundown of the week’s notable all-hazards security news, risks and threats and some of the key focus areas for organizations to consider behind the headlines. Gate 15 team members discuss physical security, cybersecurity, natural hazards, health threats and other issues across our environment.
- Nerd Out! Security Panel Discussion, moderated by Dave Pounder, focuses on physical security topics including terrorism, extremism, hostile events, and other pertinent topics.
- The Gate 15 Interview, is a monthly interview between Gate 15’s founder and Managing Director, Andy Jabbour and guests from throughout the homeland security risk management community addressing a wide range of all-hazards topics and issues.
- The Cybersecurity Evangelist, with Jennifer Lyn Walker, is a cybersecurity-focused discussion with Jen and invited guests. This is presently a Gate 15 special podcast and occasionally is updated on our Gate 15 podcast channel.
- Venue Security, The IAVM Podcast Series was a 2024 limited series podcast as Gate 15’s founder and Managing Director, Andy Jabbour hosted a series of short interviews with venue safety and security experts from the International Association of Venue Managers’ (IAVM) Venue Safety and Security Committee (VSSC) and other special guests from the IAVM community.
- The Risk Roundtable, was a monthly discussion among our team and occasional guests exploring the all-hazards threats and risks impacting the United States and internationally. This was suspended in September 2023.
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