Security Weekly News episode 596 dropped July 7, covering a packed week in infosec. Here’s what stood out.
AI found seven bugs in the FAT filesystem driver (FatFs). That’s the part finding them. The hard part is actually fixing the devices those bugs live on — embedded systems that don’t get updates.
Anthropic clarified that Claude Fable 5 isn’t permanently leaving subscriptions. Confusion was floating around, but the company says it’ll stick around.
North Korea’s PolinRider supply chain campaign targeted 108 unique repositories. That’s a lot of potential downstream victims.
GitHub briefly offered to burn repos onto CDs after getting mocked for it. The offer got cut short. Not exactly security news, but definitely tech news.
Robot rental is becoming a thing — BBC covered a service that lets you rent robots for work or play. Hackers who shoveled snow for a company got rewarded with network admin access. Social engineering at its coldest.
Full episode and links at the source below.
