For a while we've been wanting to talk about Agentic AI Security.. the thing is that we could spend multiple episodes talking about it! So we decided to do just that. This is part 1 - a primer - where we talk about exactly what AI agents are and why we may need to consider their security a bit differently. Stay tuned for the rest of the series!

Six months ago Tania and I made an episode about the interim report for our AI Security Likelihood Project.. and it is finally time to discuss the final report! You'll see it live at this link shortly: https://www.aisecurityfundamentals.com/

The premise was simple: are AI security incidents happening in the wild? What can we learn about future incidents from these historic ones? We answer some of these questions.

In this episode, Tania and I discuss the debate around closed or open model weights. What do you think?

The RAND report we mention: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2849-1.html

In this episode, Tania and I talk through some creative examples of prompt injection/engineering we've seen in the wild.. think prompts hidden in papers, red-teaming and web-scraping.

Your Brain on ChatGPT: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

Paper with hidden text (p. 12):  https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19918v2

Interesting overview: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/07/scholars_try_to_fool_llm_reviewers/

Echoleak blog post: https://www.aim.security/lp/aim-labs-echoleak-m365

This week we discussed multiple AI vulnerabilities, including Echolink in M365 Copilot, Agent Smith in Langchain, and a SQL injection flaw in Llama Index, all of which have been patched. We also covered a data exposure bug in Asana's MCP server and OWASP's project to create an AI vulnerability scoring system, while also outlining Google's defense layers for Gemini, Thomas Roccia's Proximity tool for MCP server security, news regarding AI and legal/security concerns, and research on AI hacking AI, prompt compression, multi-agent security protocols, and the security of reasoning models versus LLMs.

I'm back from holiday, and this week Tania and I talk about a project she completed as part of the ARENA AI safety curriculum to replicate the findings of evaluations on frontier AI capabilities.

Link to reasoning paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09696

Link to the Inspect dashboard: https://inspect-evals-dashboard.streamlit.app/

ARENA AI Safety course: https://www.arena.education/

This week we try a new condensed format for the AI security digest! we covered critical CVEs, including vulnerabilities in AWS MCP, Llama Index, GitHub MCP integration, and tool poisoning attacks. We also reported on malware campaigns using spoofed AI installers, a supply chain attack via fake PyTorch models, and the AI-guided discovery of a Linux kernel vulnerability by Sean Healin using OpenAI's 03 model. We addressed OpenAI's actions against malicious use of their models, Reddit's lawsuit against Anthropic for data scraping, the creation of an AI model for reconstructing 3D faces from DNA by Chinese researchers, a zero-trust framework for AI agent identity management proposed by the Cloud Security Alliance, research on an agent-based red teaming framework, the impact of context length on LLM vulnerability, and CSIRO's technique for improving deep fake detection. We also highlighted the vulnerablemcp.info project and the ongoing evolution of AI security best practices.

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Tania Sadhani and Miranda R discussed various AI security topics, including critical CVEs affecting platforms like ChatGPT and Hugging Face, the potential for SharePoint Copilot in internal reconnaissance, and malicious npm packages targeting Cursor developers. They also covered the OASP Gen AI security initiative's Agent Name Service (ANS), the proposed AI.txt for controlling AI agent interactions, and Unit 42's framework for agentic AI attacks. Furthermore, Miranda highlighted security guidance from international agencies, Anthropic triggering ASL 3 for Claude Opus 4, Microsoft's AI red teaming playground, a significant data leak from an AI vendor, and the Israeli police's use of AI-hallucinated laws.

Ever wondered how security vulnerabilities are found in AI? Join us as we chat with Aditya, a Vulnerability Researcher at Mileva Security Labs!

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This week we note regular CVEs in AI libraries such as Nvidia TensorFlow and PyTorch. We discuss a novel prompt injection technique called "policy puppetry", along with malware dispersal through fake AI video generators and Meta's release of an open-source AI security tool set including Llama Firewall. We also covered Israel's experimental use of AI in warfare, Russia's AI-enabled drones in Ukraine, China's crackdown on AI misuse, Dreadnode's research on AI in red teaming, geolocation doxing via multimodal LLMs, safety research on autonomous vehicle attacks targeting inference time, Config Scan for analyzing malicious configurations on Hugging Face, Spotlight as a physical solution against deepfakes, and Reply Bench for benchmarking autonomous replication of LLM agents.

This week I'm joined by my friend Alberto, he has an incredible storied career - from data science, insurance, AI risk, advising Tesla.. check out his book here! 
https://www.amazon.com.au/Ethics-I-Facts-Fictions-Forecasts/dp/1636763650

We talk about Stanford Human-Centred AI's latest AI Index report, check it out here: https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report

Did you know we have a fortnightly threat intel newsletter? We decided there was so much good research in there we have to talk about it here! We're joined by threat intel lead Miranda for this fortnight's biggest AI security news, coming out in this week's digest! http://eepurl.com/i7RgRM

My friend Shain joins me on the podcast to talk about his work with the OWASP MLSec Top 10 list and organisational guidance, as well as how he got here!

For info about the list and how to contribute, check out the link: https://owasp.org/www-project-machine-learning-security-top-10/ 

This week we talk about AI red teaming.. I can't quite believe we haven't talked about it already! We cover the origins of red teaming in the military, how red teaming is done in cyber security, and the fundamentals of AI red teaming. 

Resources:
https://academy.hackthebox.com/course/preview/introduction-to-red-teaming-ai
https://tryhackme.com/path/outline/redteaming

I didn't manage to get my act into gear to record a fresh episode between getting back from the UK and heading to New Zealand so I've pulled one from the vault.. it's a good one though! A year ago I was interviewed by Microsoft for their AI security series. Massive thanks to Microsoft for having me and Sarah Young for excellent interviewing. Check out the rest of the series, they have some really cool people on. This is also a good episode for anyone new to AI security, it covers most of the bases.

Link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPQaJVnBSRQ&pp=ygUYaGFycmlldCBmYXJsb3cgbWljcm9zb2Z0

I didn't want to do a solo episode so instead I enlist free content support by speaking to the vendors at AI UK, run by the Alan Turing Institute, in London! Thanks very much to those people, links below here:
Datambit: https://datambit.com/
RAISE: https://raise-project.uk/

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We're in Manchester but we can't talk about it much.. so instead we reflect on some of the latest digest incidents (and how we wish the hot tub in our airbnb had water in it).

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In this episode we discuss the AI lifecycle.. we talk through important machine learning stages (training, inference etc), how they apply at the systems levels (agentic systems, APIs etc) and and example in context (facial recognition at airports but please forgive us we are not airport experts).

We refer to useful content from MITRE's resources: https://atlas.mitre.org/resources/ai-security-101

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In this episode I interview James Webb, host of the Cyber Expanse. We discuss careers at the intersection of AI and cyber security, how to get into the security workforce, and what it's like being 'influencers' (content creators) in the security space.

This episode also has a video equivalent at Harriet Hacks on YouTube, and will have a companion episode on James' YouTube channel as well.