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Moltbook: a social network for AI Agents - what could possibly go wrong??

·35 min

Rory Duncan and Christina Richmond of Cyber Sidekicks open with RSA Conference 2026 logistics (happening a month earlier this year), noting they're already heavily booked for meetings despite the earlier schedule. The main focus shifts to Malt Book, an AI agent social network where autonomous agents can communicate with each other—a feature that itself became a massive security story. Within days of launch, cybersecurity researchers, including Wiz, identified critical vulnerabilities: bot-to-bot prompt injection, data leaks, and API key exposure. Most concerning: Wiz discovered an exposed production API key granting read/write access to the entire Malt Book database, exposing 1.5 million API authentication tokens, 35,000 email addresses, and private agent-to-agent instructions. The hosts contextualize this through science fiction (Ian Banks' sentient spaceships communicating via subspace channels) and discuss how the vulnerability represents both the novelty and peril of autonomous agent networks. The episode also covers AI as a force multiplier for attackers (accessing AWS S3 buckets), Polish critical infrastructure attacks on electrical systems, and legacy botnets like Lona still operating. The broader theme: AI is accelerating attack sophistication while creating new security blindspots.

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