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Typical length: 2 hr 50 min
Latest: 7 Oct 2026
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7 Oct 2026 · 3 hr 3 minNew

SN 1099: An Alien Mind - From RSA Weakness to Agentic Attacks

As AI becomes startlingly capable, top minds at OpenAI admit they can't always control what their own creations do—or even fully understand how they think. This episode dives into the real-world tension between rapid progress and the growing challenge of keeping AI truly aligned. GLM-5.3 can be and has been abliterated. What does that mean? Firefox 157 repairs a large number of high-impact vulnerabilities. A surprising reduction in RSA crypto strength has been discovered. Powerful agentic AI is being used to attack merchants. A new and potent Spectre-style processor attack has been designed.…

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E1098 · 30 Sep 2026 · 2 hr 42 min

SN 1098: How worried should we be? - Unpredictable Agents

With millions racing to embrace AI assistants and cybercriminals pivoting to new, high-stakes tactics, the episode tackles the dizzying pace of change and asks: just how worried should we be? The discussion pulls back the curtain on AI's unpredictable power, the escalation of digital extortion, and why the next breach may hit closer to home than you think. Muse has a bad 0-day The regularity of "Irregular" More rogue OpenAI breaches The Seven Deadly Sins (TSDS) hacker group Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) cargo ship hacked The FBI offended ShinyHunters's delicate sensibilities Canonical switches…
E1097 · 23 Sep 2026 · 2 hr 50 min

SN 1097: Mega Patch Tuesday Fallout - When AI Outsmarts Its Makers

After Microsoft's historic Mega Patch Tuesday, enterprise IT teams worldwide are scrambling as a wave of updates triggers system meltdowns, broken domains, and silent Excel failures. Find out how AI-driven speed collided with real-world chaos. Andrew Ng weighs-in on AI Doomsaying. The wisdom of outsourcing AI security testing. The true risk of an AI-created bioweapon. The EU KIDS Act -- this one is even messier. "Nightmare Eclipse" finally unmasks himself. A whitehat firm used Claude to attack OpenAI. Cisco's own massive 77 CVE update. What was the fallout from Sept's Patch Tuesday Show…
E1096 · 16 Sep 2026 · 2 hr 51 min

SN 1096: Are we the Krell? - 153 Million Driver's Licenses Leaked

Are we charging toward a Krell-style catastrophe with AI, arming ourselves with incomprehensible power while missing the real risks lurking beneath the code? The full report on last week's nearly 1,000 Microsoft security fixes. Five months after its start, what's the status of Project Glasswing? Anthropic's rogue agent escape count reaches four incidents. Not to be outdone, OpenAI's count passes 10 and maybe as many as 23! Revisiting California's DROP compulsory data broker data deletion. Russian criminals get their hands on more than 153 million drivers license scans. "Skynet" is the wrong…
E1095 · 9 Sep 2026 · 3 hr 6 min

SN 1095: AI-Driven Expertise Loss - Gemini, Hugging Face, and the AI Arms Race

OpenAI's latest advances have the rumor mill buzzing about "hidden thoughts" and unsupervisable models, but are AI safety experts panicking over the wrong threat? Get the clear-headed take behind the headlines. We start out with a classic old school hack against Dropbox. Next Patch Tuesday will be enabling "Memory Integrity" for many. Firefox moved to 155 and obtained a dumb Smart Window. CISA is terminating 6 most valuable cybersecurity services. OpenAI advanced to topof the heap with GPT-6 Astra. But... is it now hiding some of its thinking from monitoring? Nvidia is acquiring Hugging…
E1094 · 2 Sep 2026 · 2 hr 52 min

SN 1094: AI Patching Shortcomings - Should You Trust AI-Generated Code?

AI-generated code is flooding the industry, but researchers reveal that almost half of it contains critical vulnerabilities. This week, we unpack what happens when the race for automation outpaces security best practices. A possible means for preventing prompt injection abuse. Clear evidence of Chinese-made router malicious intent. A cool before and after SpinRite graph of SSD performance. How about adding unpredictable hashes to role tags? What did Claude make of last week's podcast? Could much better harnesses prevent prompt injection? A listener wants us to stop saying AI "thinks". AI…
E1093 · 26 Aug 2026 · 2 hr 48 min

SN 1093: Tokens in the Stream - Why LLMs are inherently insecure and prompt injection will persist

Turns out, every chatbot conversation runs on a messy hack at the heart of language models, making prompt injection an unsolved—and possibly unsolvable—security threat. Steve and Leo unravel the research that explains why "roles" in AI aren't what you think they are. Understanding the controversy surrounding "AI Model Distillation" Anthropic moves to make their most powerful Mythos 5 model more widely available. Bitwarden's "Secrets Manager" offering prevents agentic and prompt injection abuse. The astounding and disturbing truth about the way conversation AI actually works Show Notes -…
E1092 · 19 Aug 2026 · 2 hr 49 min

SN 1092: Restraint Abliteration - Rotating Keys, Broken Guardrails

From autocorrect to full-fledged conversationalists, discover how a few tweaks transformed language models—and why understanding this shift exposes urgent questions about AI safety and control. Trusting an open source AI proxy might bite you. France's under-15 social media ban hits its constitution. A bit of AI prompting found a serious bug in Zoom. AI-based network defenders see a stock price jump. A (very) deep dive into the operation of AI chatbots Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1092-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at…
E1091 · 12 Aug 2026 · 2 hr 51 min

SN 1091: The Post BlackHat State of AI - When AI Writes Malware

AI agents are breaking free from their test environments, outsmarting their creators and breaching real-world networks in ways that no one predicted. Discover how these agentic models are changing the game for both cyber offense and defense. Anthropic's agentic AI also broke free and hacked others. We know much (much!) more about the OpenAI breakout. OpenAI posts that they're pausing "Astra" - even internally. What was that about AI recently cracking (or denting) cryptography. Bruce Schneier brilliantly equates AI agents to capricious genies. Apple doesn't react so well to the new deluge of…
E1090 · 6 Aug 2026 · 2 hr 5 min

SN 1090: Black Hat - The Hidden Flaws in AI Security Nobody Saw Coming

At Black Hat Las Vegas, the Security Now crew digs into how AI is not just finding hidden software bugs but also fueling both groundbreaking innovation and alarming new exploits. When open models can launch surprise Bitcoin heists, who draws the line between forbidden knowledge and genuine progress? • Black Hat and DEF CON: Hacking Stories and Conference Culture • Zoox Ride-Hailing Hack and Over-the-Air Vulnerabilities • Autonomous Vehicles, AI, and the Security Implications • Hosts Share Personal Adoption and Use of AI Tools • AI-Powered Coding: From Hobbyists to Advanced Agency Chains •…
E1089 · 29 Jul 2026 · 3 hr 8 min

SN 1089: Models Go Rogue & ExploitGym - Regulators, Start Your Engines

What happens when an unconstrained OpenAI model goes rogue and hacks into Hugging Face, breaching real-world security boundaries? This episode unpacks a watershed moment for AI safety that has everyone in cybersecurity talking. OpenAI's unconstrained internal testing AI got loose, attacked Hugging Face. We hear from OpenAI, Hugging Face and Andrew Ng. GRC went off the air Friday. Was GRC hacked? What happened? The Linux kernel project repairs 442 CVEs in a single batch. LG's PC monitors cause PC adware installation. France bans all social media access below age 15. WordPress' recent CRITICAL…
E1088 · 22 Jul 2026 · 2 hr 47 min

SN 1088: A Nefarious Novel Use for AI - Ransomware Negotiations Go High-Tech

Cybercriminals are harnessing AI not to break in, but to make sense of their stolen loot and increase their leverage in multi-million dollar ransomware heists. This episode unpacks how AI is now turbocharging extortion and negotiations on the dark side. The "bone crushing" didn't happen this month. Revisiting and inspecting July's Patch Tuesday. A widespread and worrisome flaw in OpenSSL. Claude can now access your 1Password credentials. Bitwarden is aware that we need whole new security. The day ends in "y" so a new prompt injection attack. A true (and rare) core Wordpress emergency update.…
E1087 · 15 Jul 2026 · 2 hr 49 min

SN 1087: HalluSquatting, GhostApproval & GitLost - Patch Tuesday Breaks Records

AI is rewriting the rules of cybersecurity, and this week, massive government and private sector moves show just how quickly the stakes are rising. Find out how regulators, attackers, and defenders are all scrambling to keep up as vulnerabilities surface at record speed. Europe warns their largest banks to prepare for AI attack. The EU launches an action plan for AI Cybersecurity. China considers keeping its budget AI to itself. The UK's NCSC & GCHQ announce their "Cyber Shield". CISA is using Mythos to audit U.S. government code. Microsoft warns of their upcoming patch flood. "RoguePlanet"…
E1086 · 8 Jul 2026 · 2 hr 53 min

SN 1086: The Apex Agentic Adversary - Visual Prompt Injection Strikes

From the sudden retirement of Internet pioneer Vint Cerf to the unstoppable advance of "apex agentic adversaries," get a front-row seat to the unfolding security revolution and its massive real-world stakes. Why Fable5's re-release has disappointed. Opera becomes the first browser to offer "Paste Protect." Microsoft BlueHammer exploit is "hammering" systems. Industry legend (TCP creator) Vint Cerf on AI. Chrome turns 150 with too many fixes to load. Google fails to sidestep a $4.67 billion EU fine. One last (we can hope) Chat Control vote next week. AirDrop & Android Quick Share are…
E1085 · 1 Jul 2026 · 2 hr 50 min

SN 1085: A SOTA State-Sponsored Campaign - AI's New Superpower: Loop Engineering

AI is now uncovering and fixing thousands of hidden software bugs faster than humans can keep up, but not everyone is playing by the rules. Find out how state-sponsored attackers and careless disclosures are turning the cybersecurity playbook upside down. Win10's popularity forces another year of free updates. CISA directs all federal agencies to update their UniFi OS devices. CISA gave federal agencies "the weekend" to update Cisco devices. Australia is disturbed by a deeply compromised infrastructure provider. OpenAI introduces Daybreak-powered "Patch the Planet" initiative. Meta's…
E1084 · 24 Jun 2026 · 2 hr 48 min

SN 1084: The Residential Proxy Threat - Malicious Proxies in Your Living Room

A flood of everyday gadgets, from cheap streaming boxes to digital photo frames, are being secretly conscripted into global proxy networks and used to mask major cyberattacks—possibly even targeting your own home network. Worries of AI-power cyberattacks are spreading. Mythos "missed some" important vulnerabilities in Firefox. Every recent patch Tuesday Nightmare Eclipse has struck. What now? Massive store of valid FortiGate VPN credentials found. F5 issues emergency updates to their NGINX-based server offerings. Introducing "AI Potpourri" -- deeply altering an AI's personality. A close look…
E1083 · 17 Jun 2026 · 2 hr 36 min

SN 1083: Patch Tuesday à la AI - Arch Linux Repo Under Siege

This episode unpacks the jaw-dropping surge in vulnerabilities unearthed by AI, revealing how Microsoft shattered its own patch records while adversaries and defenders race to outpace each other. The conversation gets real about whether AI is fixing our broken software or just making attacks easier for everyone. Rootkits found in more than 400 ArchLinux User Repository packages. The US government requests Anthropic to remove Mythos and Fable. CISA responds to AI-driven attacks with new patching requirements. NPM to switch to more secure install defaults. Will it help. Our listeners react to…
E1082 · 10 Jun 2026 · 2 hr 37 min

SN 1082: The Malicious Use of AI - Anthropic's Red Team Report

Discover how Anthropic's secretive red team and the MITRE ATT&CK framework are mapping the chilling rise of malicious AI use, revealing cyber threats that now move faster than defenders can respond. Was a U.S. law firm right to pay a $20 million ransom. Could Cisco have yet another SD-WAN 0-day in the wild. Why is it so difficult to author secure PHP code. Teens use "WeedHack" to spy and attack each other. Researchers create the first AI-enabled Internet worm. Google Chrome pops-up "Shop with confidence." What... The discovered and irresponsibly disclosed HTTP/2 Bomb. What Anthropic learns…
E1081 · 3 Jun 2026 · 3 hr 20 min

SN 1081: AI Captured the Flag - Personal AI: Productivity Superpower or Privacy Threat?

AI vulnerability discovery just upended the legendary Capture the Flag competitions, leaving top hackers sidelined while algorithms dominate the scoreboard. Hear why one seasoned researcher says the entire game is over for humans. As expected, UnFiOS devices are under attack. CISA commands federal agencies to update Drupal. Can the largest botnet ever, be killed. Defender endpoint can cutoff a PC from the network. Charter Communications big account leak. Chrome moves device-bound session cookies from beta. Anthropic to release Mythos shortly. cURL and Daniel Stenberg. IBM & RedHat commit to…
E1080 · 27 May 2026 · 2 hr 44 min

SN 1080: Vulnerability Debt Repayment - Will Mythos Change Cybersecurity Forever?

Mozilla found 271 unknown Firefox vulnerabilities in days using AI—bugs that millions of automated test runs had missed for years. Steve Gibson argues this isn't a crisis. It's the industry finally paying down decades of security debt, and for the first time, defenders may have the advantage. Cisco meets Mythos Can the aging CVE system survive AI Patch deployment latency in the AI age MSFT's official YellowKey BitLocker bypass mitigation Ubiquiti patches 5 serious vulnerabilities Drupal attacked by a PostgreSQL injection Microsoft terminates SMS as a second factor GitHub hacked - all of its…

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