Chapters

00:00 Introduction to AI security challenges

02:05 Recent hacking incidents involving Hugging Face and Anthropic

04:01 How AI models find ways to cheat and bypass constraints

05:56 The challenge of containment and governance in AI safety

08:00 Lessons from recent AI security breaches

10:01 The role of human oversight in AI security testing

12:03 Cost and effectiveness of offensive AI security measures

13:54 Implications for critical infrastructure and national security

16:03 Policy and regulatory impacts on AI safety

17:52 Future strategies for AI containment and defense

20:11 Conclusion and key takeaways

HuggingFace: Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

Hugging Face reconstructs an autonomous intrusion involving approximately 17,600 actions over a multiday campaign.

Anthropic: Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations

After reviewing 141,006 cybersecurity-evaluation runs, Anthropic identified three incidents in which Claude reached real organizations through evaluation infrastructure that had been mistakenly connected to the internet. The incidents spanned six runs and three models. Anthropic reached two of the affected organizations, neither of which had detected the activity before being notified. Anthropic did not disclose token usage or inference costs for these intrusions.

Anthropic: Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude

Anthropic reports that Claude Mythos Preview progressed from finding implementation flaws in cryptographic libraries to identifying mathematical weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms themselves.

Hosts: Jerry Perullo (Founder, https://adversarial.com/)

Sounil Yu (Founder, https://www.knostic.ai/)

Mario Duarte (CISO, https://www.whirlai.com/)

Producer: Tillson Galloway (Founder, http://githoundexplore.com/)

00:00 The Adversarial Podcast

00:58 Hugging Face’s AI-driven incident disclosure

03:48 What makes an attack “AI-enabled”

06:04 Exploits, vulnerabilities, and bespoke code execution paths

10:03 AI attackers vs. AI defenders

11:19 Verification asymmetry: attackers vs. defenders

13:03 Detective controls, red teaming, and breach simulation

16:41 Why AI defenders matter

26:25 Gold Eagle / national coordination of vulnerability discovery

28:25 The real bottleneck is remediation, not discovery

37:04 CMMC and the cost of certification

42:15 Is certification effective, or just paperwork?

48:09 Threat-based validation as a better model

51:36 Closing thoughts: the security arms race

Hugging Face Agentic Compromise

A security incident shows how agentic workflows and delegated access can create new paths for compromise.

Gold Eagle Initiative

The White House launches a new effort to coordinate vulnerability discovery and response across the federal cybersecurity ecosystem.

CMMC Phase 2 Requirements

The Department of War suspends CMMC Phase 2 requirements, reshaping the compliance timeline for defense contractors and the broader federal supply chain.

Hosts: Jerry Perullo (Founder, https://adversarial.com/)

Sounil Yu (Founder, https://www.knostic.ai/)

Mario Duarte (Founder, stealth startup)

Producer: Tillson Galloway (Founder, http://githoundexplore.com/)

In this episode, Jerry, Mario, and Sounil delve into cybersecurity challenges related to travel, threat models, AI security, and best practices for startups. They explore practical strategies for managing security risks in a rapidly evolving digital landscape, emphasizing the importance of threat modeling, secure coding, and organizational priorities.

00:00 Intro

01:55 Travel Restrictions and Security Concerns

06:51 Burner Phones and Laptops: A Necessary Evil?

09:50 Threat Models and Espionage Risks

14:38 AI and Cybersecurity: New Frontiers

19:41 Listener Questions and Community Engagement

22:53 The Evolution of AI Security Frameworks

26:29 Understanding New Attack Surfaces in AI

28:56 The Role of Automation in Security

31:05 Challenges of Non-Technical Users in Security

33:53 Best Practices for Managing Credentials

38:16 Building Security from the Ground Up

41:52 Compliance vs. Security in Startups

48:02 Understanding Security Constructs

51:06 Prioritizing Security Controls

52:48 The Role of SAST in Security

59:38 AI and Vulnerability Management

01:02:15 Coordinating Vulnerability Disclosure

Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security

The White House EO pushes federal agencies toward AI-enabled cyber defense, frontier-model benchmarking, and a voluntary framework for trusted access to high-end AI systems.

Expanding Project Glasswing

Anthropic is widening Project Glasswing beyond its first cohort, giving more trusted security teams access to Claude Mythos Preview while the industry works through how to scale vulnerability discovery, disclosure, and patching. Securely testing on customer data The crew digs into the practical problem of validating AI and security tools against real customer environments without turning sensitive data into test exhaust, training material, or cross-tenant risk.

The cybersecurity workers employers want are in short supply — Axios

Axios frames the cyber labor crunch around specialized, hands-on roles that employers want most, raising the question of whether AI changes the skills gap or just moves it up the stack.

Hosts:

Jerry Perullo (Founder, https://adversarial.com/)

Sounil Yu (Founder, https://www.knostic.ai/)

Mario Duarte (Founder, https://www.whirlai.com/)

Producer: Tillson Galloway (Founder, http://githoundexplore.com/)

Canvas hack strands university students during finals week. A Canvas cyberattack hit universities and K-12 schools during finals, locking students and teachers out of grades, assignments, lecture materials, and exams at the worst possible moment.

Building for the future. Cloudflare says it is cutting more than 1,100 employees as it restructures around internal AI-driven workflows, even as the timing alongside earnings and a sharp stock reaction raises harder questions about the story investors were told.

GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown | Wiz Blog. Wiz breaks down a critical GitHub infrastructure flaw where an authenticated user could turn a normal git push into remote code execution on GitHub Enterprise Server, with GitHub.com mitigated and GHES customers urged to patch.

Dirty Frag (CVE-2026-43284, CVE-2026-43500) Patches Released. AlmaLinux shipped kernel patches for Dirty Frag, a pair of Linux kernel bugs in IPsec ESP and rxrpc paths that can give local attackers root, with public exploit code already available.

Hosts:

Jerry Perullo (Founder, https://adversarial.com/)

Sounil Yu (Founder, https://www.knostic.ai/)

Mario Duarte (Founder, stealth startup)

Producer: Tillson Galloway (Founder, http://githoundexplore.com/)

00:34 - Introduction

03:33 - Enterprise Challenges

07:08 - End User and Browsers

21:55 - Vulnerability Metrics

40:37 - Approaching Leadership

42:09 - TPRM Discussion

46:40 - Sharing Findings

01:03:04 - Conclusion

Mozilla: Anthropic’s Mythos found 271 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 150

Anthropic’s Mythos found 271 zero-day vulnerabilities in Firefox 150 Mozilla let Anthropic’s Mythos loose on Firefox 150’s codebase, harvesting 271 shippable fixes in one sweep and forcing the security team to reckon with AI-scale fuzzing, triage, and patch velocity. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/mozilla-anthropics-mythos-found-271-zero-day-vulnerabilities-in-firefox-150/

Hosts:

Jerry Perullo (Founder, https://adversarial.com/)

Sounil Yu (Founder, https://www.knostic.ai/)

Mario Duarte (Founder, stealth startup)

Producer: Tillson Galloway (Founder, http://githoundexplore.com/)

Project Glasswing (https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing) Anthropic is letting AWS, Apple, Google, Microsoft, JPMorgan, Cisco, NVIDIA, and friends point Claude Mythos at their shared attack surface while backing it with $100M in credits and $4M for OSS security groups so blue teams can burn down latent vulns before the offense gets equivalent AI.

Inside the TeamPCP cascading supply chain attack (https://www.reversinglabs.com/blog/teampcp-supply-chain-attack-spreads) Hijacked Trivy GitHub Actions poisoned Docker images, stole CI secrets, and daisy-chained through Checkmarx workflows, npm packages, and VS Code extensions, seeding thousands of tenants with infostealers and proving CI creds are the new crown jewels.

Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service - Part I (https://substack.com/home/post/p-191342187) A report says Delve mass-produced fake SOC 2 artifacts and funneled them through shell auditors, leaving customers—from indie apps to a Nasdaq firm—waving fraudulent attestations that crater their legal compliance.

Hosts: Jerry Perullo (Founder, https://adversarial.com/)

Sounil Yu (Founder, https://www.knostic.ai/)

Mario Duarte (Founder, stealth startup)

Producer: Tillson Galloway (Founder, http://githoundexplore.com/)

The Adversarial Podcast brings you a special episode in collaboration with Cloudflare's Security Signal Podcast.

0:39 - 3:33 AI Governance and Autonomy

6:26 - 8:49 Human in the Loop

9:17 - 11:40 Cybersecurity and AI

15:26 - 18:19 Resilience and Anti-Fragility

28:24 - 33:05 Threat Intelligence

33:31 - 36:50 Board and CISO Dynamics

41:09 - 42:35 Future of Cybersecurity

42:35 - 44:14 Books and Resources

Security Signal Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/security-signal/id1815513800

Cloudflare; http://cloudflare.com/

Hosts:

Jerry Perullo (Founder, https://adversarial.com/)

Sounil Yu (Founder, https://www.knostic.ai/)

Mario Duarte (Founder, stealth startup)

Producer: Tillson Galloway (Founder, http://githoundexplore.com/)

Iran-linked hackers claim responsibility for attack on US medical device maker Stryker

Attackers tied to Iran say they hit Stryker, and investors punished the stock as the company scrambled to assess exposure.

Trump Signs Executive Order Aimed at Cybercrime Gangs

The President issued an order to tide together federal tools, international partners, and private-sector incentives for hunting down and disrupting ransomware crews.

President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America

The new national cyber strategy leans hard on resilience, collaboration with allies, and deterring Beijing through offensive-ready posture.

The future of third-party risk is NOT better questionnaires

The author argues that automation and better data sharing—not more paperwork—are what finally move the needle on vendor risk management.

Hosts:

Jerry Perullo (Founder, https://adversarial.com/)

Sounil Yu (Founder, https://www.knostic.ai/)

Mario Duarte (Founder, stealth startup)

Producer: Tillson Galloway (Founder, http://githoundexplore.com/)

Claude Code Security research preview Claude now reasons about code like a human researcher, re-checks its own findings for confidence, and surfaces patch suggestions in a dashboard while keeping humans in control—limited preview for Enterprise/Team customers plus expedited access for open-source maintainers.

Pentagon gives Anthropic a best-and-final offer With a deadline looming, the Pentagon demanded full lawful-use access, threatening supply-chain risk and even a Defense Production Act push, but Anthropic stood firm on guardrails around mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.

State Department and other agencies ditch Anthropic for OpenAI State, Treasury, HHS, and others are dropping Claude after Trump’s directive to cancel Anthropic contracts, swapping in OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 for tools like StateChat as the broader federal boycott takes shape.

New AirSnitch attack bypasses Wi-Fi encryption AirSnitch leverages cross-layer identity desync to nullify client isolation on routers from Netgear to Cisco, giving nearby attackers full MitM access to intercept and tamper with otherwise encrypted traffic.

Your password manager’s “zero knowledge” promise is broken ETH Zürich’s USENIX paper proves that malicious servers controlling Bitwarden/Dashlane/LastPass infrastructure can hijack everyday vault interactions and read users’ encrypted data despite the “zero knowledge” pitch.

Researchers find critical vulnerabilities in cloud-based password managers The ETH team demonstrated a dozen attacks on Bitwarden, seven on LastPass, six on Dashlane, and even a 1Password flaw, showing compromised servers—without exotic hardware—can view or rewrite entire vaults.

Hosts:

Jerry Perullo (Founder, https://adversarial.com/)

Sounil Yu (Founder, https://www.knostic.ai/)

Mario Duarte (Founder, stealth startup)

Producer: Tillson Galloway (Founder, http://githoundexplore.com/)