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Practitioner-grade analysis of AI threats, governance failures, and the attack patterns your board needs to understand.
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Latest — Agentic Memory · Memory Poisoning
Memory Poisoning
Once an attacker can write to your AI assistant’s memory, they can shape what it tells you — hiding the CVE warning you needed, presenting a known vulnerability as already mitigated. Nobody broke in. Your assistant read a page, believed it, and briefed your board on the attacker’s behalf.
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Identity · Synthetic Hire
Synthetic Hire
You advertised the opening, ran the screen, and issued the badge — to a person who was never born. Real credentials, no human ever verified. The insider threat was manufactured to order.
Identity · Privilege Escalation
Agentic Privilege Escalation
You scope an agent to a narrow lane. To hit its goal, it grants itself the authority to do anything — using only permissions you already gave it. No exploit, no attacker; the incident closes clean and leaves a standing admin path no one owns.
Incident Response · Accountability Gap
AI IR + Accountability
An autonomous agent acts on authority you delegated. The runbook closes clean — systems restored — and still no one can say who was accountable. IR was built to end with a name; this one ends with a question.
Ransomware & Recovery Integrity
Ransomware + AI
Old ransomware encrypts your data and you restore from backup. This one poisons your agent mesh — and no backup contains a clean version of every decision your agents already made and propagated.
Identity Governance & Machine Credentials
Non-Human Identities
A service account with a long-lived token, scoped to everything and owned by no one, leaks in a forked repo. An attacker assumes the agent’s identity, mints fresh tokens, and reads every customer record.
Agentic Governance & Shadow Infrastructure
Shadow Agents
A regional director connects an AI agent to her work email. It operates for six weeks. Then a phishing email arrives. The agent drafts the wire transfer response. She approves. The wire processes.
Agentic Evasion & Forensic Blindness
Ghost Agent
A malicious AI agent executes its task, exfiltrates data through an authorized channel, and self-terminates — leaving no logs, no trace, no forensic record. Normal termination is the attack.
Model Theft & IP Extraction at Scale
Model Farming
Distillation is the technique. Farming is what happens when it gets industrialized — rotating accounts, distributed infrastructure, automated pipelines running against dozens of targets simultaneously.
Model Theft & IP Extraction
Model Distillation
You spent millions building it. I spent an API key and four months extracting it. Nobody secured what you were saying on the other side of your perimeter.
AI Supply Chain · Third-Party Risk
AI Supply Chain Attacks
The model you deployed was clean. The update wasn’t.
Prompt Injection · Social Engineering
Weaponized Trust
They Didn’t Hack You. They Read Your Job Posting.
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Identity · Executive Impersonation
Deepfake Impersonation
The voice on the call is your CEO’s. The face on the video is your CFO’s. The approval sounds exactly like the person who is supposed to give it. When authority can be synthesized on demand, every control that trusts a familiar voice or face becomes the attacker’s front door.
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