This Week in AI Security - 5th March 2026
Modern Cyber with Jeremy Snyder by Jeremy Snyder
Episode notes
In this week's episode, Jeremy records straight from the sidelines of the [un]prompted security conference in San Francisco. Before diving into his key takeaways from the event, he covers a massive, AI-assisted data breach and a critical shift in how Google API keys must be handled.
Key Stories & Developments:
- Nation-State AI Hack: A hacker reportedly used Anthropic’s Claude to identify vulnerabilities and OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 for lateral movement, resulting in the theft of 150GB of data (over 180 million records) from the Mexican government.
- MCP Infrastructure Flaws: An unauthenticated Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) flaw leading to Remote Code Execution (RCE) was found in a widely used Atlassian MCP.
- The Gemini API Key Crisis: A flaw in the G ...
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