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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,
It’s our one year anniversary! This week we talk about the highlights of the last year, a new high-level phishing campaign that uses Microsoft Teams as an initial access vector, and the takedown of the ancient Sality P2P botnet. Then we offer some book and TV recommendations for the long weekend. Links One year of […]
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.
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…
AI security pioneer and machine learning expert Gary McGraw helps Dennis separate the facts from fiction about the recent OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic model escapes, what the real risks to enterprises are from agentic AI, and what he sees as the true threats on the horizon.
This week we talk about the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident and what it means for those companies and the way that AI models are tested, and then we discuss Anthropic’s entry into the race with its own admission that some of its models escaped the playground and attacked outside organizations. Links OpenAI-Hugging Face intrusion: https://decipher.sc/2026/07/29/openai… Anthropic […]
