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

Inside a Multi-Agent AI Framework Used to Compromise Government Entities in Asia — Dream Research Labs

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/)