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Ken Bagnall, founder and CEO of Silent Push, talks about the August National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) on transnational cyber-enabled crime, how organizations can make “real impact” with cybercriminal disruption, and the challenges of measuring success in disrupting the cybercriminal ecosystem.
This week we discuss the two arrests in Australia of alleged members of the TeamPCP cybercrime group that has targeted the open source ecosystem, the US government’s disclosure of intrusion activity by the Chinese QTFY threat actor, and finally the long report from OpenAI on the Hugging Face incident.
Nicole Ozer, new executive director at the EFF, talks about AI and surveillance concerns.
TRACE aims to help prove that sensitive data in organizations is being handled “according to policy” by AI agents and open weight models.
This week we discuss the new White House memo on using private sector operators in offensive cyber operations, Lindsey’s deep dive into the origins of the ExploitGym AI benchmark, and the rash of attacks on water utilities in the U.S. Links Inside ExploitGym: https://decipher.sc/2026/08/20/inside… White House memo: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidenti… OpenAI post: https://openai.com/index/the-defender…
A research collaboration, directed by UC Berkeley, led to the development of ExploitGym, a large-scale benchmark for measuring AI agents’ abilities to develop exploits. Here’s the story of how ExploitGym came to be.
