SN 1072: LiteLLM - Click Fix Attacks Surge

About this episode

The episode discusses a near-catastrophic supply chain hack involving LiteLLM and various cybersecurity topics including age verification and quantum computing advancements.

An explosive supply chain hack in Light LLM nearly unleashed catastrophic malware across millions of AI systems, and it took a coder's quick thinking to catch it before it snowballed into disaster. Will California require Linux to verify its user's age. Apple's iOS 26.4 requires UK users to prove their age. Russia chooses to use home grown 5G mobile encryption. Ukraine knew the webcam was installed by Russian spies. Google moves quantum computing "Q Day" to 2029. At RSA, UK's NCSC CEO warns of vibe-coded SaaS replacements. More information about nasty ClickFix campaigns. More than one in seven Reddit postings are an AI-bot. The story behind the LiteLLM disaster that was averted. Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1072-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now . You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page . For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com , also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6 . Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video…

People in this episode

Hosts: Steve Gibson, Leo Laporte

Topics covered

• supply chain attack
• AI systems
• cybersecurity
• quantum computing
• age verification
• malware
• ClickFix campaigns

Keywords

• LiteLLM
• supply chain hack
• malware
• AI systems
• age verification
• quantum computing
• ClickFix
• cybersecurity

Sponsors

ThreatLocker, Adaptive Security, GuardSquare, Meter

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: California, Apple, Russia, Ukraine, Google, NCSC

Products: LiteLLM, iOS 26.4, 5G mobile encryption, Spinrite 6

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