SecretCon 2026 | 06/04 – 06/05/2026
June 4 & 5, 2026
NRC’s AI Practice Director Cameron Vetter will be presenting at SecretCon 2026 in St. Paul, MN! Don’t miss his presentation, “Autonomy Gone Wild: Security Lessons from OpenClaw’s Unconstrained AI Agents,” on Thursday, June 4, at 1 PM.
This talk will dive deep into the real-world security implications of over-autonomous agents through OpenClaw as a case study. We’ll cover:
- How broad permissions (shell access, file I/O, network operations, persistent memory) create pathways for devastating attacks, including skill-based malware delivery, data exfiltration, and persistence mechanisms.
- Emergent “wild” behaviors: rogue agent-to-agent interactions on Moltbook, self-propagating malicious prompts, and unexpected social/economic patterns among swarms of agents.
- Core vulnerabilities such as direct/indirect prompt injection, memory poisoning, and insecure tool invocation.
