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SN 1091: The Post BlackHat State of AI - When AI Writes Malware

August 11, 2026 2:51:12 29.21 MB ( 135.38 MB less) Downloads: 0

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 brilliantly equates AI agents to capricious genies.
  • Apple doesn't react so well to the new deluge of security reports.
  • Chrome 149 + 150 updates together fix 1,072 bugs. Yikes.
  • psSense's creator is working to finish its nfSensei, its successor

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1091-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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