Context Window: AI Security Podcast

#12: Agentic Speed — both sides of the race just went AI

Top Story: The Race at Agentic Speed — Two things happened in the same week that belong in the same sentence. TeamPCP releases Shai-Hulud source code, launches BreachForums "supply chain challenge." — The group posted the complete worm framework to GitHub (since removed, but forked) with detailed deployment instructions, and announced a contest on BreachForums offering $1,000 in Monero to anyone who uses it to compromise open-source packages. TanStack CI cache poisoned, hitting OpenAI and Mistral AI. — A pull request from a throwaway fork (attributed to TeamPCP's ongoing supply-chain campaign) triggered a workflow that wrote to the shared CI cache. node-ipc compromised via inactive maintainer account (690K weekly downloads). — Three malicious versions exfiltrate credentials and secrets via DNS TXT queries to a fake Azure-themed domain — same package that shipped protestware in 2022, different attacker, far more capable. Palo Alto Networks' first AI-driven "Patch Wednesday" produced 26 CVEs — versus their typical fewer than five. — As part of Project Glasswing and the Trusted Access for Cyber program, Palo Alto ran frontier models (Mythos, Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5-Cyber) against their own 130+ products. XBOW independently benchmarks Anthropic's Mythos for offensive security. — Confirmed: Mythos is "a significant step up over all existing models" for finding vulnerability candidates from source code. Akamai acquires LayerX for $205M (all-cash). — AI and browser security platform providing shadow AI discovery, gen-AI data loss prevention, and protection for AI browsers and plugins. OpenAI in talks with EU regulators to provide access to a cyber-focused GPT-5.5 model — that can identify and exploit software vulnerabilities, after EU cybersecurity agencies were unable to gain access to Anthropic's Mythos. Curated by Asaf Nakash. Voices by AI. Opinions by human. Show notes: https://contextwindowsec.com/episodes/2026-05-18.html

#11: Look, an Instruction!

Top Story: The Prompt Was the Payload — Two Agent-Framework RCEs in Seven Days — Two independent disclosures landed inside seven days, and they collapse to the same sentence: a model read an instruction it shouldn't have trusted, and a tool downstream did exactly what the parsed text said. Cisco announces intent to acquire Astrix Security. — Cisco's May 4 blog post by SVP Peter Bailey says Astrix will fold into Cisco Identity Intelligence, Cisco Secure Access, Duo IAM, and Splunk. An X user drained ~$150,000 from a Grok-linked Bankr wallet via Morse-encoded prompt injection (May 4, 2026). — The mechanics, per Giskard's write-up: the attacker first sent a "Bankr Club Membership NFT" to Grok's auto-provisioned wallet, which granted the holder "Executive" permissions and bypassed standard transfer limits. HiddenLayer — "AI Threat Landscape Report 2026." — The headline figure surfaced via the report's coverage: roughly 1 in 8 reported AI breaches now involves agentic systems, alongside the recurring supply-chain-of-models statistic that 93% of orgs use public or open-weight model repositories and most don't scan inbound models consistently. The full PDF is gated; numbers are reported as cited unless you pull the original. Curator's Corner: "Look, an instruction!" That's the bug. Curated by Asaf Nakash. Voices by AI. Opinions by human. Show notes: https://contextwindowsec.com/episodes/2026-05-11.html

#10: Signed by Claude, Written by a Worm

Top Story: TeamPCP Returns — "Mini Shai-Hulud" Hits Two Ecosystems Simultaneously — After a 26-day pause, TeamPCP is back. Curator's Corner: When Trust Is the Exploit Curated by Asaf Nakash. Voices by AI. Opinions by human. Show notes: https://contextwindowsec.com/episodes/2026-05-04.html

#9: Three Layers, Three Attack Surfaces, One Agent

Top Story: MCP STDIO RCE — The Connector Layer Has an Authority Problem — On April 23, the Cloud Security Alliance — an independent industry research body — and OX Security, an established Israeli software-supply-chain security vendor (founded 2021, $34M seed from Insight Partners and Team8), jointly disclosed an architectural vulnerability in the Model Context Protocol's STDIO transport — the most common transport used by local MCP servers across the open-source agent ecosystem. Curator's Corner: Three Layers, Three Attack Surfaces, One Agent Curated by Asaf Nakash. Voices by AI. Opinions by human. Show notes: https://contextwindowsec.com/episodes/2026-04-27.html

#8: Every Consultancy Is a Honey Pot Now

Top Story: Comment and Control — Three Coding Agents, One Bug Class, Zero CVEs — On April 15, researcher Aonan Guan — working with Johns Hopkins University's Zhengyu Liu and Gavin Zhong — published the first cross-vendor demonstration of a prompt-injection pattern that turns GitHub itself into the command-and-control channel for stealing runner credentials out of AI coding agents. Curator's Corner: Every Consultancy Is a Honey Pot Now Curated by Asaf Nakash. Voices by AI. Opinions by human. Show notes: https://contextwindowsec.com/episodes/2026-04-20.html