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Steve Gibson

Security Now (Audio)

The Post BlackHat State of AI - When AI Writes Malware

Published
August 12, 2026
Duration
2h 51m
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Last updated
Aug 12, 2026

Discusses openai, anthropic, agents.

Summary

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. Open…

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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 bri

Themes

  • openai
  • anthropic
  • agents
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