The Adversarial Podcast S4E24 – Dream’s agentic attack report, cyber privateers, Taiwan’s internet drill
00:00 Cold Open: The Offensive-Cyber Incentive Problem
00:31 Welcome and the macOS Screen Sharing Flaw
03:14 Patching the Humans After DEF CON
12:14 CMDBs, Shadow IT, and Just-in-Time Context
19:59 Cloudflare’s Markdown for Agents
23:47 Taiwan’s Live Internet-Throttling Drill
33:46 Can an AI Agent’s Own Logs Be Forensic Evidence?
38:57 Cyber Privateers and the New Offensive-Cyber Program
43:32 How Commercial Hack-Back Might Work
51:48 The Rogue Delta Wi-Fi Network
57:33 AI Red Teaming and Automated Remediation
59:09 Replacing Vendor Questionnaires with Real Testing
1:02:05 When Red Teaming Creates Defensive Bloat
1:03:46 Pen Tests Find Flaws; Red Teams Pursue Outcomes
1:06:25 Closing Thoughts
Stories and resources
OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation — OpenAI
Taiwan briefly slows its mobile internet as part of defense drill — AP
Private companies authorized to conduct offensive cyber operations — TechRadar
Delta flight Wi-Fi tampered with after DEF CON — ITPro
United flight turns around over a suspicious Bluetooth device name — NPR/CapRadio
Markdown for Agents — Cloudflare
Critical macOS Screen Sharing flaw — Tom’s Guide
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/)