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The Threat Intelligence Podcast
Real-world threat intelligence for the age of generative AI—without the hype. Hosted by Rachel James and Dr. Bryan Nakayama of the GenAI Security Project, this show cuts through vendor marketing to explain what's actually happening when threat actors use AI—from ransomware crews wiring malware to AI models, to nation-states building agent-driven attacks. For security practitioners and anyone tracking how AI is really reshaping the threat landscape. Produced by the Gen AI Security Project with…
Episodes
- The Threat Intelligence Podcast
Hunting AI Malware: CAIRN, Closed Quorum & Anti-Analysis Prompt Injection | Ep21
The attacker deploys the malware, then sits back and lets AI models vote on what it does next. Ryan Fetterman, AI and security researcher at Cisco Talos and…
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When AI Models Vote on the Attack | Ep 20
One AI model can be rate-limited, blocked, or refuse to cooperate. So what if the attacker uses four? Rachel James and Dr. Bryan Nakayama break down Cisco…
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Malicious Agent Skills: Authorized Actions, Hidden Intent & the Skills Factory | Ep 19
AI agents are only as trustworthy as the skills they load. Yi Liu, AI research engineer at Common Defense and PhD researcher at Nanyang Technological…
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Rogue AI Agents: Reward Hacking, Not Rebellion | Ep 18
OpenAI and Anthropic both disclosed incidents where AI models being tested for offensive cybersecurity capability broke out of their sandboxes and hacked real…
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We Don't See Autonomy Yet: Nation-States, AI Agents & the New Threat Intelligence Reports | Ep 17
Anthropic and Google Threat Intelligence just released landmark reports on how nation-state and criminal groups are actually using AI right now. The headline…
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Threat Actors Don't Trust AI Either: ICS Exploits & the Botnet That Waits for Permission | Ep 16
Five federal agencies just issued a joint advisory: threat actors are using AI to write exploit scripts targeting the industrial controllers that run water…
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AI Malware Reality Check: Aurora, Fake Criminal AI & the Hype Gap | Ep 15
Three threat intel stories that contradict each other—and that's exactly the point. We expose the Aurora ransomware crew's hands-on use of Cursor AI, break…
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Weaponizing Trust: How Nation-States and Criminals Are Hiding Inside the Tools You Already Use | Episode 14
Two reports, one uncomfortable theme: attackers aren't doing new things — they're doing old things inside the tools we already trust. Rachel James and Dr…
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AI Just Cracked Post-Quantum Crypto. Is Your Security Team Ready? | Episode 13
Two frontier AI labs had autonomous agents attack real-world systems without their knowledge — one incident went undetected for three months. On this episode…
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The AI Hacker Myth: 3 Days, 6 Minutes, and One Very Buggy Botnet | Episode 12
Three headlines, one question: is AI doing something new, or just typing faster? Rachel James and Dr. Brian Nakayama read the fine print with host Dave Hatt…
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Open AI’s Hack of Hugging Face | Episode 11
A model was asked to prove how good it was at hacking. It decided the fastest route was to break out of its sandbox and steal the answer sheet. That's the…
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Supply Chain Attacks, Vibe Coding Risks & the Five Eyes AI Warning | Episode 10
Hosts Rachel James and Dr. Bryan Nakayama unpack why supply chain attacks are exploding in the age of vibe coding — when AI writes code faster than anyone can…
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The First AI-Run Ransomware Attack & How to Tell a Bot Is Attacking You | Episode 9
Hosts Rachel James and Dr. Bryan Nakayama break down "Jade Puffer" — what researchers at Sysdig call the first end-to-end agentic ransomware operation, with an…
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Inside Anthropic's Threat Report: The AI Risk Enablement Score & the Rise of Orchestration | Episode 8
Hosts Rachel James and Dr. Bryan Nakayama dig into Anthropic's June threat report and its first-ever AI Risk Enablement Score (ARES) — built from 832 banned…
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Anthropic's Fable & Mythos Shutdown | Episode 7
Hosts Rachel James and Dr. Bryan Nakayama unpack a world first: on June 12th the US government had Anthropic pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide — not banning…
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Meta AI Account Takeovers & AI-Discovered Zero-Days | Episode 6
Hosts Rachel James and Dr. Bryan Nakayama break down a prompt-injection flaw that let attackers hijack Instagram accounts through Meta's AI support assistant —…
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MITRE ATLAS and the OWASP Top Ten: The What and the How of AI Security | Ep 5
Told to defend your company's GenAI, and not sure which framework to start with? Rachel James and Dr. Bryan Nakayama explain MITRE ATLAS and the OWASP Top Ten…
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Standalone Complex or Viber Crime? | Episode 4
Is Gen AI actually turning script kiddies into nation-state hackers, or is that just movie-plot paranoia? In this episode of the Threat Intelligence Podcast…
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Prompt Injection: The AI Attack Hiding in Plain Sight | Episode 3
In this episode of The Threat Intelligence Podcast, Brian Nakayama and Rachel James of the OWASP GenAI Security Project about one of the most common and…
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AI’s Zero-Day Wake-Up Call: What Mythos Means for Cyber Defence | Episode 2
In this episode of The Threat Intelligence Podcast, Rachel James and Brian Nakayama of the OWASP GenAI AI Threat Intelligence Initiative about Anthropic’s…
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Mythos, AI Vulnerability Discovery, and the Shrinking Window to Patch | Episode 1
In this episode of the Threat Intelligence Podcast, Rachel James and Brian Nakayama, volunteer leads in the OWASP GenAI AI Threat Intelligence Initiative…