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(Presented by TLPBLACK: A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 116: This week, the buddies dig into a mystery hack that cooked French supermarket fridges, cyberattacks against food supply networks, and why this smells like nation-state sabotage in Europe? Plus, a fresh Ivanti zero-day chain, Anthropic's self-replicating IoT research and defender-hostile guardrails, Citizen Lab's AdFection spyware-by-ads exposé, Calif's iPhone exploit drops at Hexacon, Grok's surprising enterprise adoption, and spy chips stuffed inside Ledger wallets. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu. Timestamps: 0:00 Introductory banter 1:35 Virus Bulletin 2026 in Seville 6:13 Conference roundup: State of Statecraft, Countermeasure, RE//verse 10:21 French supermarket fridges hacked 22:53 Hacking food supply and the attribution question 33:23 Who patches the fridge? 45:58 Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day chain 53:00 When an AI agent deletes your databases 1:04:34 NCSC edge-device forensics guidance 1:28:06 Anthropic's self-replicating IoT research 1:52:17 Why guardrails lock out defenders 2:04:57 Grok's enterprise play and agent sprawl 2:16:26 Citizen Lab exposes AdFection spyware via ads 2:57:24 Calif burns iPhone exploits at Hexacon 3:06:55 Ledger wallet implants and the grain of rice

(Presented by TLPBLACK: A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals.) Three Buddy Problem x Offensive AI Con: Luta Security chief Katie Moussouris makes the case for an NTSB-style board for AI incidents, with subpoena power and full-time investigators, after OpenAI's DNS tunneling escape and the 52 days it took to notice a model had wandered into Australian government systems. Along the way, we chat about her work on the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB), AI model refusals that leave defenders stuck, and why she still bets on hackers to bend this technology their way. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Katie Moussouris. Timestamps: 0:00 Intros at Offensive AI Con 1:00 OpenAI's DNS tunneling incident and slow monitoring 4:36 Treating AI like malware in a sandbox 9:01 The business model is the misalignment 13:37 Log4j, SBOMs and an NTSB for AI 18:00 Trading liability protection for honest disclosure 22:13 Accountability and "once you become aware" 26:18 The Australia notification timeline 28:19 A blank-check administration and the Anthropic phaseout 34:35 Powerful models in the right hands 38:42 Kill switch bills and regulatory capture 42:36 EU fines as a tariff on American tech 48:03 Reasons for optimism 54:13 Bring back "information security" 1:01:57 Katie's last word

(Presented by TLPBLACK: A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals.) Three Buddy Problem x Offensive AI Con: Ollie Whitehouse, CTO of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre, joins us to explain how Britain is preparing for an AI-driven patch wave and why the NCSC is pressing edge-device vendors to finally ship real telemetry. Plus, we dig into rogue AI agents wandering into a Five Eyes network, along with his forecast that small, capable models could revive self-spreading worms around 2030, all part of what he calls the biggest forced correction of technical debt the industry will ever see. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Ollie Whitehouse. Timestamps: 0:00 Live from Offensive AI Con: meet Ollie Whitehouse 2:46 Why the NCSC is a model for the US 6:48 What a "national technical authority" does 7:49 The Huawei analysis and the push for passkeys 10:50 Independent AI model testing 13:12 Open-weight vs. closed models and AI sovereignty 19:02 Capability density and AI worms by 2030 23:09 Robotics security and lessons from Japan 26:49 Preparing for the patch wave 31:06 Architecture fixes: OT, cross domain, privileged access 32:28 Telecoms security and Salt Typhoon 38:59 Minimum telemetry standards for edge devices 41:55 Market incentives and the EU Cyber Resilience Act 46:05 Rogue agents and the forced correction of technical debt

(Presented by TLPBLACK: A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals.) Three Buddy Problem x Offensive AI Con: Umbriel AI's Aaron Grattafiori breaks down the new offensive-security playbook, using LLMs for patch variant analysis, why the vuln apocalypse hasn't become an exploit apocalypse, and how the death of security through obscurity puts closed-source binaries and firmware within reach. Plus, we discuss rogue agents escaping sandboxes, the eval-driven loop behind recursive self-improvement, and the brutal cost asymmetry that makes offense cheap and defense almost unaffordable. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Aaron Grattafiori. Timestamps: 0:00 Introductory banter 1:12 Umbriel AI pitch: "Smart people in a place to cook” 3:08 Weird, exhausting, exciting time in security 4:00 What AI really changed: speed (and a 30-minute reimplementation) 6:36 Incomplete fixes and the variant-analysis pipeline 9:21 Uplifting, abstraction, and representing vulnerabilities 11:48 Experimentation and the new shape of security companies 14:46 The vuln apocalypse vs. the exploit apocalypse 16:36 Triage, verification, and reward hacking 18:08 Do models reintroduce bugs? Is vuln-free code possible? 24:22 Specialized models and the rise of Jev-style classifiers 26:47 Binaries, firmware, and the death of security through obscurity 31:15 Open source as a requirement and corporate contracting 33:54 Rogue agents: Hugging Face, OpenAI, and lab escapes 39:17 Why defense is so expensive, and running the rig

(Presented by TLPBLACK: A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals.) Three Buddy Problem x Offensive AI Con: Former US intelligence and national security official Joel Todoroff joins us live from OffensiveAIcon to explain why his new startup Phyle is building AI for the recon and targeting work that happens long before anyone fires an exploit. We get into bribable sysadmins, the military framing that boxes in Western cyber operations, letters of marque, AI doomerism, and what happens when a frontier model decides mid-project that your use case is off-limits. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Joel Todoroff. Timestamps: 0:00 Live from OffensiveAIcon in Oceanside 1:23 What Phyle builds for governments 3:02 Skepticism of the AI 0-day factory 5:57 Paying a sysadmin vs. burning tokens 9:30 Recon gets less love than weaponization 12:41 Exploit shelf life and target No. 1,000 17:30 Why attacker costs will keep rising 22:23 What HUMINT looks like in 2026 27:06 Why intelligence stovepipes persist 32:16 Cyber as statecraft beyond the military frame 41:23 People will keep making dumb mistakes 48:03 The White House memo and letters of marque 54:06 Doomerism vs. near-term AI harms 1:04:20 PSOA concerns and building guardrails in 1:26:03 Open models, guardrails and zero data retention

(Presented by TLPBLACK: A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals.) Three Buddy Problem x Offensive AI Con: Live from OAIC, IBM X-Force's Valentina Palmiotti (chompie) walks us through the autonomous Windows kernel exploit pipeline she built on older Claude models, which landed within a hair of Mythos for about $180 a chain. Plus, the Pwn2Own bug Claude called unexploitable, why her Pwn2Own bugs still sit unpatched, disappearing exploit techniques, the dread of being a defender, and how Phrack found its way back into print. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro and Pwn2Own war stories 3:46 What vibe hacking means 8:16 When long agent runs go sideways 10:31 Self-verification in an n-day kernel pipeline 16:11 Matching Mythos for $180 a chain 18:42 The bug Claude called unexploitable 21:49 Unpatched bugs and the defender gap 25:37 Mythos arrives through CVP 27:00 Models only know public techniques 32:01 Testing models on held-back bugs 37:45 Inside chompie's daily workflow 46:07 Where's the exploitpocalypse? 50:07 Pixel drops MTE 53:40 Advice for defenders: design for containment 58:34 Phrack is back

(Presented by TLPBLACK: A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 115: We into Anthropic's Frontier Red Team fear-mongering on Zhipu's open-weight GLM 5.3 model and wonder why the AI labs' cyber programs do so little for defenders. Plus, Citrix NetScaler zero-days, a new iOS zero-day tied to WhatsApp, AI agents that act on your behalf, and whether security teams should buy DGX Sparks to run models locally. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu. Timestamps: 0:00 Introductory banter, TLPBLACK 3:38 OffensiveAI Con and the missing defensive con 9:28 Anthropic's GLM 5.3 post 23:21 What do defensive AI coalitions do? 29:08 Inside Glasswing 36:01 Why can't vuln-finding models patch? 42:44 Gemini for Argon and Grok's CVE-Bench tie 47:54 Is hallucination a solved problem? 57:41 Zhipu's program and 4,000 zero-days 1:02:32 Citrix NetScaler zero-days 1:10:42 Half-days and automated patching 1:26:45 iOS 27.0.1 zero-day and WhatsApp 1:32:36 Dots, Instinct and agent monetization 1:52:06 DGX Spark 64GB and local AI hardware 2:18:38 Anthropic visits the Pope, then UFOs

(Presented by TLPBLACK: A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 114: We dig into TypeSafe AI's Jev and the new class of System One models, a new Transluce report on rogue OpenAI agents probing an Australian Medicare portal, Irregular's role in the latest Gemini test breakout, Hacktron's takeover of OpenAI employee accounts and the messy disclosure fight that followed, and what Costin would fix first as OpenAI's CISO for a day. Plus, the soaring price of DGX Sparks and home AI rigs, the White House pressing labs to hold models back from the UK AI Security Institute, Anthropic bringing in Accenture as an evaluator, the FomoPeek App Store app hiding iOS kernel exploits, ShinyHunters' claimed FBI breach, and Nightmare Eclipse going public with identity and a CrowdStrike exploit. Cast: Ryan Naraine, Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade and Costin Raiu. Timestamps: 0:00 Introductory banter 1:57 The Last LABScon wrap-up 9:35 TypeSafe AI's Jev and System One models 26:18 Step-down transformers and lab economics 30:58 Rogue OpenAI agents and the Transluce report 41:40 Irregular and Gemini's test breakout 49:28 Hacktron's OpenAI hack and the disclosure fight 54:57 Costin as OpenAI CISO for a day 1:05:44 Hugging Face defends itself with GLM 5.2 1:17:08 What a home AI rig costs now 1:30:02 White House vs. UK AISI pre-release testing 1:36:52 FomoPeek kernel exploits in the App Store 1:51:19 ShinyHunters claims an FBI breach 2:02:40 Nightmare Eclipse unmasked

(Presented by TLPBLACK: A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 113: On the show this week, the buddies dig into an Anthropic researcher quitting with a warning that AI could kill us all, the San Francisco "death cult" and their motives, and agent swarms leaving junk on public wikis and university URL shorteners. Plus, a high-quality Anthropic's threat report and the claim that Moonshot was quietly serving Claude tokens as Kimi K3, live MikroTik and Chrome zero-days that landed a day ahead of the patches, and a WeChat worm that hijacks an account via phone calls. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu. Timestamps: 0:00 Introductory banter, TLP Black 5:05 LabsCon, the last one, and JAGS on his keynote 8:24 Costin's agentic CTI training and what old-school CTI is missing 16:27 Anthropic's threat-intel report + IOCs 20:00 APT29 and DarkSword on hotel Wi-Fi 23:34 Bioweapons, guardrails, and what got shut down 28:07 Why is anyone running these attacks on Claude at all? 35:53 Distillation at industrial scale and the Kimi K3 fraud claim 48:43 Chinese models, Americanized, running on DGX Spark 55:00 Mr. America: local AI and the seven-layer cake 1:04:34 Should frontier AI labs poison the distillers? 1:27:05 What the frontier labs did to the security ecosystem 1:34:22 Jacob Coxon quits, and the doomer argument falls apart 1:59:13 Agent swarms littering the internet 2:07:29 Chrome zero-days, MikroTik, patch-gaps

(Presented by TLPBLACK: A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 112: The 'OpenAI hacks Hugging Face' fallout has turned into a story about AI civilizations rising from the ashes, politicians calling for super-intelligence bans, and the emergence of well-funding non-profits doing AI safety work. Who are these people and what's their security expertise? Plus, GPT-6 Astra lands in a trusted-access program nobody can get into, Costin ranks the local models he runs next to his desk, and CrowdStrike sinkholes a botnet that's been alive since 2003. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu. Timestamps: 0:00 Introductory banter 1:02 Conference season: LabsCon, Offensive AI Con, Countermeasure 5:40 The Hugging Face story hits the front page 7:04 Dwarkesh, Greenblatt, and the AI-pilled framing 11:51 Swap "agents" for "Python" and the panic goes away 16:34 Does anyone actually know what happened? 21:18 Bernie Sanders wants to ban superintelligence 34:03 Defending against swarms: the 2026 SOC 39:15 Logs, Splunk, and the business model in the way 44:11 What EDR vendors are actually building with AI 56:16 The security poverty line and the endgame 1:07:53 GPT-6 Astra, Fable 5.1, and local model rankings 1:27:25 Google's Fairwind, CodeMender, and agents running Linux 1:45:31 Apple's bet on local inference 1:53:21 The Sality takedown and endgame advice

(Presented by TLPBLACK: A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 111: OpenAI finally published a technical Hugging Face post-mortem, and Costin's verdict is blunt. He reads it as a document written for policymakers rather than for the blue teams who have to survive a thousand-agent swarm. We also dig into NVIDIA's $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, why JAGS thinks a frontier lab standing against open-source looks weak, and what that new industry open letter on cyber defense actually asks anyone to do. Plus, hotel Wi-Fi tradecraft after CaptiveCrunch, the FBI's ORB network takedown with Lumen, Chinese routers that ship backdoored from the factory, and the TeamPCP arrests in Australia. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu. Timestamps: 0:00 Introductory banter 1:11 TLPBlack, incident response, and why it starts at the router 4:11 CaptiveCrunch and Juanito's travel router kit 7:59 Costin's VPN/hotel WiFi stack 12:36 State of Statecraft, LABScon, and Offensive AI Con 17:16 OpenAI's Hugging Face post-mortem technical report 21:43 A swarm of a thousand agents 27:35 Who was OpenAI’s report written for? 33:05 Fail2ban, canaries, and catching agents in your logs 40:34 NVIDIA buys Hugging Face for $12.9 billion 44:42 The open weights fight and rooting for China 52:47 Nemotron, DGX Spark, and the RAM price spiral 1:03:26 Open letter on collective AI-powered cyber defense 1:30:21 Lumen's Quartermaster and the FBI ORB takedown 1:59:05 Backdoored ZBT routers, Chinese phones, and the TeamPCP arrests

(Presented by TLPBLACK: A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 110: We dig into Computer Weekly's scoop on the EncroChat hack and news that the French law enforcement implant was cobbled together from GitHub. Plus, Irregular, the $450M startup running sandboxes for OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta, drones over Romania's gas platforms, OpenAI's two-week training pause, and T-Mobile taking scissors to a cable during Salt Typhoon incident response. Stick around for a UFO segment that somehow involves Dr. Phil. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu. Timestamps: 0:00 Introductory banter; LabsCon speakers announced 9:06 A naval drone reaches the Neptun Deep gas platform 17:38 OpenAI pauses RL training: what "slowing the pace of scaling" costs 24:34 Guardrails vs refusals vs alignment. 33:54 Irregular, formerly Pattern Labs: $80M, $450M valuation, one job 46:11 JAGS on why security needs a new batch of startups right now 1:06:52 EncroChat revealed: a GitHub-sourced implant, IOCs 1:15:12 Law enforcement malware vs intelligence malware 1:21:07 T-Mobile, Salt Typhoon, and cutting the cable with a pair of scissors 1:32:06 Captive Crunch: hotel Wi-Fi, OAuth token theft, and the MSP supply chain 1:47:00 ICE RELIC, UNC6293, and the trouble with subcluster naming 2:00:39 UFO corner: David Grusch, Dr. Phil, and the Skywatcher Project 2:05:44 Shout outs, the Costin Challenge

(Presented by State of Statecraft: A security and intelligence conference that brings together multiple disciplines, backgrounds, and nationalities to share research into the covert activities of nation-states and other malign actors.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 109: The buddies dig into a new White House memo handing vetted private companies real offensive cyber authorities, and Costin explains why a stack of ransomware takedown cases has been sitting on a shelf waiting for exactly this. Plus, a tiny 12 KB Windows backdoor found on one machine with a dead C2, the mercenary outfits quietly living inside telcos, and why Google continues to flounder in the race for AI dominance. Cast: Costin Raiu, Ryan Naraine and Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade Timestamps: 0:00 Introductory banter 0:58 State of Statecraft, and a late CFP window 3:24 The White House offensive hacking memo 6:37 "Hack back" is the wrong frame for what's being authorized 11:20 Ransomware cases sitting on the shelf 17:01 The million-dollar bond and who can realistically play 22:29 Where DPRK crypto theft falls under the new definitions 28:15 Would TLP Black take a contract? 36:55 Gen Digital's 12 KB backdoor hiding its C2 in desktop.ini whitespace 46:57 Passive DNS, registration patterns, and pivoting on a dead domain 57:32 Feeding a one-off find back into detection engineering 1:02:14 Metador, Mafalda, and the mercenaries who love telcos 1:17:07 Armored Likho and what "Western APT" really means 1:28:16 The IOC market, private reporting, and CTI’s matching problem 1:58:10 Google's culture problem, the weekly model churn, and Patch Tuesday math

(Presented by TLPBLACK: A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 108: OpenAI got on the Black Hat stage and walked through how its own agent swarm hacked Hugging Face. We discuss and struggle to decide whether to clap or panic. Plus, why only the attacker can do forensics now, frontier models being built as cyber-weapons on purpose, APT29's "Dark Hotel" comeback in luxury hotels, China's swipe at Palo Alto, the Iran-water-system FUD, and an eye-opening Liechtenstein money-laundering hack. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu. Timestamps: 0:00 Introductory banter - Black Hat went full RSA 1:11 TLP Black sponsor read 3:58 A deflated, AI-pilled show floor 8:31 AI stunt hacking and AI slop 16:20 The OpenAI–Hugging Face talk 21:00 Not all the same incident: OpenAI vs. Meta, Anthropic, and Irregular 25:49 Swarms of agents, Artifactory message boards, and the defense gap 32:26 Offense vs. defense: what's really in the training data? 41:22 Guardrails, KYC, and "too dangerous to release" 48:07 JAGS's unpublished Opus 5 benchmark — grinding to 25% and stuck 59:30 AISI, recklessness, and the OpenAI Frontier Risk Council 1:06:27 Stronger models everywhere: Qwen, Sol, Astra, rushing off the cliff 1:18:32 APT29 / "Dark Hotel" reborn + travel OPSEC 1:39:56 China's Palo Alto review, spy-agency rankings, Iran/water FUD 1:57:28 Liechtenstein AML hack, JAGS's promotion, mental health

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