The Adversarial Podcast
The Adversarial Podcast
Jerry Perullo, Sounil Yu, Mario Duarte
S4E24 – Dream’s agentic attack report, cyber privateers, Taiwan’s internet drill
1 hour 6 minutes Posted Aug 18, 2026 at 7:04 am.
Cold Open: The Offensive-Cyber Incentive Problem 00:31 Welcome and the macOS Screen Sharing Flaw 03:14 Patching the Humans After DEF CON 12:14 CMDBs, Shadow IT, and Just-in-Time Context 19:59 Cloudflare’s Markdown for Agents 23:47 Taiwan’s Live Internet-Throttling Drill 33:46 Can an AI Agent’s Own Logs Be Forensic Evidence? 38:57 Cyber Privateers and the New Offensive-Cyber Program 43:32 How Commercial Hack-Back Might Work 51:48 The Rogue Delta Wi-Fi Network 57:33 AI Red Teaming and Automated Remediation 59:09 Replacing Vendor Questionnaires with Real Testing 1:02:05 When Red Teaming Creates Defensive Bloat 1:03:46 Pen Tests Find Flaws; Red Teams Pursue Outcomes 1:06:25 Closing ThoughtsStories and resourcesInside a Multi-Agent AI Framework Used to Compromise Government Entities in Asia — Dream Research LabsOpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation — OpenAITaiwan briefly slows its mobile internet as part of defense drill — APPrivate companies authorized to conduct offensive cyber operations — TechRadarDelta flight Wi-Fi tampered with after DEF CON — ITProUnited flight turns around over a suspicious Bluetooth device name — NPR/CapRadioMarkdown for Agents — CloudflareCritical macOS Screen Sharing flaw — Tom’s GuideHosts: Jerry Perullo (Founder, https://adversarial.com/)Sounil Yu (Founder, https://www.knostic.ai/)Mario Duarte (CISO, https://www.whirlai.com/)Producer: Tillson Galloway (Founder, http://githoundexplore.com/)
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00:00 Cold Open: The Offensive-Cyber Incentive Problem 00:31 Welcome and the macOS Screen Sharing Flaw 03:14 Patching the Humans After DEF CON 12:14 CMDBs, Shadow IT, and Just-in-Time Context 19:59 Cloudflare’s Markdown for Agents 23:47 Taiwan’s Live Internet-Throttling Drill 33:46 Can an AI Agent’s Own Logs Be Forensic Evidence? 38:57 Cyber Privateers and the New Offensive-Cyber Program 43:32 How Commercial Hack-Back Might Work 51:48 The Rogue Delta Wi-Fi Network 57:33 AI Red Teaming and Automated Remediation 59:09 Replacing Vendor Questionnaires with Real Testing 1:02:05 When Red Teaming Creates Defensive Bloat 1:03:46 Pen Tests Find Flaws; Red Teams Pursue Outcomes 1:06:25 Closing ThoughtsStories and resourcesInside a Multi-Agent AI Framework Used to Compromise Government Entities in Asia — Dream Research LabsOpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation — OpenAITaiwan briefly slows its mobile internet as part of defense drill — APPrivate companies authorized to conduct offensive cyber operations — TechRadarDelta flight Wi-Fi tampered with after DEF CON — ITProUnited flight turns around over a suspicious Bluetooth device name — NPR/CapRadioMarkdown for Agents — CloudflareCritical macOS Screen Sharing flaw — Tom’s GuideHosts: Jerry Perullo (Founder, https://adversarial.com/)Sounil Yu (Founder, https://www.knostic.ai/)Mario Duarte (CISO, https://www.whirlai.com/)Producer: Tillson Galloway (Founder, http://githoundexplore.com/)