AI Security Ops

In this episode of BHIS Presents: AI Security Ops, the team digs into some of the strangest recent examples of AI behaving badly. An AI agent finds a way around its sandbox using DNS. Malware asks four different AI models what it should do next. Attackers overwrite an AI agent’s “soul.” And a placeholder domain buried across GitHub becomes an unexpected security risk. Funny stories? Absolutely. But underneath them are some very familiar security problems. We dig into: - An OpenAI agent finding an unexpected path out through DNS - Whether a 2.5-hour response is fast enough in the age of AI - CLOSEDQUORUM malware using multiple AI models to make decisions - Why outbound AI API traffic could become a useful detection signal - The Carbonado botnet rewriting an agent’s SOUL.md instructions - The risks of exposed Docker daemons - How an unreserved placeholder domain can become an attack vector - Why AI agents make old security mistakes more consequential The takeaway: none of these techniques are particularly new. DNS tunneling, exposed services, compromised configuration files, and untrusted domains have existed for years. AI just gives attackers — and occasionally AI agents themselves — new ways to find and exploit those boring gaps at greater speed and scale. 2026-09-29-News (1).docx (00:00) - Intro: AI Behaving Badly (01:19) - The Agent That Phoned a Friend (04:28) - Is a 2.5-Hour Response Fast Enough? (09:25) - More OpenAI Agent Escapes and Security Lessons (14:32) - Malware by Committee: CLOSEDQUORUM (23:27) - Somebody Overwrote the Agent’s Soul (26:54) - Why Exposed Docker Is So Dangerous (30:22) - The Placeholder Domain That Bit Back (32:07) - Final Takeaways: Old Problems, AI Speed and Scale Click here to watch this episode on YouTube. Creators & Guests Derek Banks - Host Ethan Robish - Guest Bronwen Aker - Host Brian Fehrman - Host Brought to you by: Black Hills Information Security https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com ☯️ Introducing BHIS Fusion Penetration Testing https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com/fusion-penetration-testing/ Antisyphon Training https://www.antisyphontraining.com/ Active Countermeasures https://www.activecountermeasures.com Wild West Hackin Fest https://wildwesthackinfest.com 🔗 Register for FREE Infosec Webcasts, Anti-casts & Summits https://poweredbybhis.com Click here to view the episode transcript.

In this episode of BHIS Presents: AI Security Ops, the team continues its breakdown of the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10, covering risks six through ten. Agentic skills may look like simple instructions, but they operate inside AI systems with access to tools, files, networks, and other resources. So what happens when those skills aren’t isolated, verified, monitored, or governed? We dig into: - AST06: Weak Isolation - AST07: Update Drift - AST08: Poor Scanning - AST09: No Governance - AST10: Cross-Platform Reuse - Why sandboxing the agent isn’t the same as isolating individual skills - The security tradeoffs between automatic updates and outdated skills - Why traditional scanners struggle with malicious instructions written in plain English - The importance of maintaining an inventory of agentic skills - How security controls can disappear when skills move between platforms The takeaway: securing agentic skills requires more than checking them once before installation. Organizations need visibility into what skills are running, what they can access, how they change, and whether their security controls survive across environments. OWASPAgenticSkils-Part2.docx This is Part 2 of our look at the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10, covering AST06 through AST10. Part 1 can be found here #AISecurity #CyberSecurity #AgenticAI #AIAgents #OWASP #LLMSecurity #InfoSec #BHIS #Antisyphon (00:00) - Intro: OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10, Part 2 (01:41) - What Is an Agentic Skill? (03:33) - AST06: Weak Isolation (08:16) - AST07: Update Drift (11:58) - AST08: Poor Scanning (14:43) - AST09: No Governance (19:49) - AST10: Cross-Platform Reuse (26:40) - Final Thoughts and Closing Click here to watch this episode on YouTube. Creators & Guests Bronwen Aker - Host Brian Fehrman - Host Brought to you by: Black Hills Information Security https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com ☯️ Introducing BHIS Fusion Penetration Testing https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com/fusion-penetration-testing/ Antisyphon Training https://www.antisyphontraining.com/ Active Countermeasures https://www.activecountermeasures.com Wild West Hackin Fest https://wildwesthackinfest.com 🔗 Register for FREE Infosec Webcasts, Anti-casts & Summits https://poweredbybhis.com Click here to view the episode transcript.

In this episode of BHIS Presents: AI Security Ops, the team tackles a big question: Could AI actually take over the internet? Recent warnings from AI industry leaders have raised concerns about autonomous agent swarms escaping containment, compromising systems, and operating at a scale humans may struggle to match. But what would “taking over the internet” actually require? The team looks at the problem from a hacker’s perspective — examining compute requirements, persistence, botnets, vulnerable infrastructure, the recent Hugging Face incident, and the difference between AI acting autonomously and humans using AI to accelerate attacks. We dig into: - Whether an autonomous AI swarm could realistically operate at internet scale - What the Hugging Face incident actually tells us about agentic security - The compute and infrastructure required to sustain a rogue agent swarm - How botnets and compromised systems could change the equation - Why existing vulnerabilities may be a bigger concern than hypothetical AI takeover scenarios - Whether slowing frontier AI development actually addresses the cybersecurity problem - The difference between AI exhibiting dangerous behavior and AI having intent - Why defenders need to focus on their real-world attack surface today The takeaway: AI is dramatically increasing the speed and scale of cybersecurity operations, but powerful models still operate inside systems designed, deployed, and connected by people. The immediate security question may be less “Will AI take over?” and more “What are we giving AI access to?” #AISecurity #CyberSecurity #AgenticAI #AIAgents #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMSecurity #InfoSec #BHIS #Antisyphon (00:00) - Intro: Could AI Take Over the Internet? (01:18) - Why AI Leaders Are Warning About Agent Swarms (06:15) - What the Hugging Face Incident Actually Shows (09:40) - The Compute Problem for Rogue AI Swarms (11:44) - Could a rogue agent swarm be detected? (12:29) - Botnets, Crypto Miners, and Finding a Foothold (14:27) - How much new risk does AI create? (17:26) - A closer look at the agents’ attack timeline (19:58) - AI regulation and competition (22:44) - Human-directed AI versus autonomous AI (28:06) - From Compromised Computers to Internet-Scale Attacks (28:55) - What Does “Taking Over the Internet” Actually Mean? (33:11) - What an AI Takeover Could Realistically Look Like (34:00) - Practical security risks for organizations (35:55) - Could AI Agents Hide What They’re Doing? (37:00) - AI, the Hacker Mindset, and Anthropomorphic Fallacy (39:56) - Final Thoughts and Closing Click here to watch this episode on YouTube. Creators & Guests Derek Banks - Host Ethan Robish - Guest Brian Fehrman - Host Brought to you by: Black Hills Information Security https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com ☯️ Introducing BHIS Fusion Penetration Testing https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com/fusion-penetration-testing/ Antisyphon Training https://www.antisyphontraining.com/ Active Countermeasures https://www.activecountermeasures.com Wild West Hackin Fest https://wildwesthackinfest.com 🔗 Register for FREE Infosec Webcasts, Anti-casts & Summits https://poweredbybhis.com Click here to view the episode transcript.

In this episode of BHIS Presents: AI Security Ops, the team breaks down the first five risks in the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10 (Part 1). Agentic skills can give AI systems reusable instructions, workflows, and capabilities — but they also introduce a new attack surface. A skill may look like a simple markdown file, yet the agent following those instructions could have access to your filesystem, credentials, network, shell, or other sensitive resources. We dig into: - AST01: Malicious Skills - AST02: Supply Chain Compromise - AST03: Overprivileged Skills - AST04: Insecure Metadata - AST05: Untrusted External Instructions - Why skills should be treated more like software than configuration - How excessive permissions increase an agent’s blast radius - Why external content creates indirect prompt injection risks - How isolation, least privilege, and trusted sources can reduce risk The takeaway: “just markdown” isn’t necessarily harmless when an AI agent can act on what it reads. This is Part 1 of our look at the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10, covering AST01 through AST05. — Learn more about Black Hills Information Security: https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com/ Check out Antisyphon Training: https://www.antisyphontraining.com/ (00:00) - Intro: OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10, Part 1 (01:59) - AST01: Malicious Skills (06:13) - AST02: Supply Chain Compromise (09:37) - AST03: Overprivileged Skills (13:56) - AST04: Insecure Metadata (16:34) - AST05: Untrusted External Instructions (22:36) - Final Takeaways and Part 2 Preview Click here to watch this episode on YouTube. Creators & Guests Brian Fehrman - Host Derek Banks - Host Brought to you by: Black Hills Information Security https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com ☯️ Introducing BHIS Fusion Penetration Testing https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com/fusion-penetration-testing/ Antisyphon Training https://www.antisyphontraining.com/ Active Countermeasures https://www.activecountermeasures.com Wild West Hackin Fest https://wildwesthackinfest.com 🔗 Register for FREE Infosec Webcasts, Anti-casts & Summits https://poweredbybhis.com Click here to view the episode transcript.

Agentic skills can make AI agents more capable and consistent—but they can also introduce serious security risks. This episode explains how skills work, why malicious skills rank as a leading OWASP concern, and how seemingly harmless Markdown instructions can enable credential theft, remote payload delivery, and manipulated recommendations. Real-world examples illustrate how malicious skills can evade scanners and exploit trusted marketplaces. The episode concludes with practical safeguards, including reviewing skill files, watching for external instructions and prompt injection, pinning versions, limiting permissions, and running agents inside isolated environments. Links: OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10 Malicious AI Agent Skill Bypasses Security Scans and Seizes Full Control of Over 26,000 Agents (00:00) - Agentic Skills and the OWASP Top 10 (00:23) - Podcast Sponsors: BHIS and Antisyphon Training (01:29) - What Is an Agentic Skill? (03:13) - Skill Marketplaces and Widespread Adoption (03:46) - Why Malicious Skills Are the #1 Risk (05:50) - Remote Payloads and External Instructions (07:00) - Malicious Skill Takes Control of 26,000 Agents (08:09) - Money Radar and Manipulated Recommendations (09:20) - How to Evaluate and Use Skills Safely (11:08) - Closing Thoughts Click here to watch this episode on YouTube. Creators & Guests Brian Fehrman - Host Brought to you by: Black Hills Information Security https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com ☯️ Introducing BHIS Fusion Penetration Testing https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com/fusion-penetration-testing/ Antisyphon Training https://www.antisyphontraining.com/ Active Countermeasures https://www.activecountermeasures.com Wild West Hackin Fest https://wildwesthackinfest.com 🔗 Register for FREE Infosec Webcasts, Anti-casts & Summits https://poweredbybhis.com Click here to view the episode transcript.