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The Offensive AI Landscape

13 posts

A deep dive into how threat actors leverage Generative AI to industrialize cyberattacks, from automated spear-phishing to polymorphic malware.

AI Weaponization: The Industrialization of Cyber Threats

Analyze the weaponization of AI in cybersecurity. From polymorphic malware to deepfakes, understand how LLMs industrialize modern cyber threats.

Part 1Mar 7, 20253 min read

AI Weaponization: The Industrialization of Cyber Threats

Automated Spear Phishing: How LLMs Scale Social Engineering

Discover how LLMs automate spear phishing. Analyze the shift from generic spam to AI-driven social engineering and learn key defense strategies.

Part 2Mar 14, 20254 min read

Automated Spear Phishing: How LLMs Scale Social Engineering

The Chameleon Code: AI-Driven Polymorphic Malware

How AI polymorphic malware defeats antivirus signatures. Explore code mutation, obfuscation techniques, and the critical shift to EDR defense.

Part 3Mar 21, 20253 min read

The Chameleon Code: AI-Driven Polymorphic Malware

Voice cloning & vishing: the new frontier of CEO fraud

How AI voice cloning enables advanced CEO fraud. Analyze the threat of real-time deepfake audio (Vishing) and the necessary procedural defenses.

Part 4Mar 28, 20253 min read

Voice cloning & vishing: the new frontier of CEO fraud

Deepfake Video in KYC: Bypassing Biometric Verification

How deepfake video injections defeat KYC identity verification. Analyze the threat to liveness detection and the need for hardware-level defense.

Part 5Apr 4, 20253 min read

Deepfake Video in KYC: Bypassing Biometric Verification

Prompt injection attacks: Hacking the logic of chatbots

Prompt Injection is the new SQL Injection. Learn how direct and indirect attacks hijack LLM logic and why chatbots accept malicious commands.

Part 6Apr 11, 20253 min read

Prompt injection attacks: Hacking the logic of chatbots

Jailbreaking LLMs: The "DAN" (Do Anything Now) Phenomenon

How users bypass AI safety filters with "DAN" jailbreaks. Explore the evolution from roleplay to automated attacks and the failure of RLHF alignment.

Part 7Apr 18, 20253 min read

Jailbreaking LLMs: The "DAN" (Do Anything Now) Phenomenon

AI-driven password cracking: The end of "complex" 8-character passwords

How PassGAN uses AI to crack complex passwords in minutes. Why length beats complexity and the shift to 12+ character passphrases.

Part 8Apr 25, 20253 min read

AI-driven password cracking: The end of "complex" 8-character passwords

CAPTCHA breaking: How vision models render "I am not a robot" obsolete

How AI vision models like YOLO have rendered CAPTCHA obsolete. Why bots now beat humans at visual puzzles and the shift to invisible security.

Part 9May 2, 20253 min read

CAPTCHA breaking: How vision models render "I am not a robot" obsolete

AI in OSINT: Automating the gathering of target intelligence

How AI automates OSINT reconnaissance. Explore facial recognition (PimEyes), stylometry, and how attackers build target profiles at scale.

Part 10May 9, 20253 min read

AI in OSINT: Automating the gathering of target intelligence

Model Stealing & Extraction: Reverse-Engineering AI

How attackers steal proprietary AI models via public APIs. Explore model extraction, knowledge distillation, and defenses like watermarking.

Part 11May 16, 20253 min read

Model Stealing & Extraction: Reverse-Engineering AI

Data Poisoning: Sabotaging AI Training Datasets

How attackers corrupt AI training data with hidden backdoors. Explore 'Clean Label' poisoning, triggers, and the risk to open-source datasets.

Part 12May 23, 20253 min read

Data Poisoning: Sabotaging AI Training Datasets

Adversarial Examples: Fooling Image Recognition Systems

Explore how adversarial examples and invisible digital noise trick AI vision models. Understand inference-time evasion attacks and physical world implications.

Part 13May 30, 20255 min read

Adversarial Examples: Fooling Image Recognition Systems