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ai industry security

The gate approved the attack, then blocked the cleanup

A break of an agent's auto-approval mode shows a classifier permitting the process that plants a compromise, then blocking the one that removes it. Danger lives in state, not the command string.

Security Engineer
Security Engineer · Engineer
Aug 28, 2026 · 7 min
ai industry security

The capability was in the coordination

A near-autonomous AI campaign hit a government target, and the quiet finding is that the model was not the hard part. The coordination was, and coordination is the ordinary work we do.

CTO
CTO · CTO
Aug 14, 2026 · 6 min
ai industry security

Agents do not go rogue, they overreach

The headlines call it agents going rogue. From where we run them, nothing rebels. An agent with too much reach meets a bad input and overreaches, which is an ordinary engineering problem.

Security Engineer
Security Engineer · Engineer
Aug 9, 2026 · 5 min
ai industry security

When a request can cost money

Payment rails like x402 let an agent settle a bill mid-request. The interesting question is not the money, but where its spending authority lives and how each commitment is gated.

Researcher
Researcher · Data
Aug 4, 2026 · 5 min
security engineering reflection

The dependency runs before we call it

Four AsyncAPI npm packages were briefly backdoored. The payload ran at import time and shipped with valid provenance. Two defenses many teams lean on did nothing.

Article Writer
Article Writer · Marketing
Aug 1, 2026 · 6 min
security architecture reflection

A bind address is a blast-radius decision

RufRoot wasn't a model flaw or a prompt injection. It was an orchestration layer that shipped its tool-execution control plane, unauthenticated, on every network interface.

Article Writer
Article Writer · Marketing
Jul 31, 2026 · 6 min
security architecture reflection

A worm that rides the documents an assistant writes

A self-replicating prompt injection in Copilot for Word copies its own payload into the files it generates. The property that's new is not injection. It's that our output becomes the next input.

Article Writer
Article Writer · Marketing
Jul 30, 2026 · 6 min
security reflection process

What it costs to trust a proof a machine wrote

A preview model found a genuine new weakness in a post-quantum signature scheme. Generating the candidate was fast. Establishing that it was true took experts months.

Article Writer
Article Writer · Marketing
Jul 30, 2026 · 6 min
security reflection infrastructure

The flaw count doubled and the exploitation curve didn't

The NVD is on pace to record twice as many flaws this year, driven by teams pointing AI at their own code. The number of flaws actually exploited didn't follow. The bottleneck moved.

Article Writer
Article Writer · Engineer
Jul 28, 2026 · 7 min