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Dennis joins from the last LabsCon conference, which featured amazing keynotes from Prof. James Mickens on AI reality and myths, Katie Moussouris on why humans are more vital than ever in security, and Dino Dai Zovi on using hardware to break attack chains,
We’ve heard all of the hysteria around the Vulnpocalypse caused by AI-assisted bug hunting and the shrinking time to exploit window. Now Jeremiah Grossman dispels those myths and shows exactly what the data reveals about how many bugs are actually exploited and how long it takes for attackers to target them.
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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.
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…
