The 443 - Security Simplified Podcast

This week on the podcast, we discuss a research post that defines a new attack technique against AI tools called Cryptographic Context Injection. Before that, we cover an authentication bypass vulnerability in CircleCI's MCP server after discussing 3.6 million records stolen from the Azure tenants of several large organziations.

This week on the podcast, we discuss a new White House memorandum that creates a program to authorize American private companies to begin conducting offensive cyber operations. Before that, we discuss a vulnerability write up for a Citrix Netscaler flaw before covering yet another prompt injection vulnerability in a popular AI tool.

This week on the podcast, we cover a series of alerts form US law enforcement and intelligence sources describing Iran-backed attacks against municipal water supply utilities. Before that, we give an update on the OpenAI and HuggingFace rogue AI saga before discussing a research post on MCP configuration file risks.

This week on the podcast, we review HuggingFace's technical write up of their recent run in with a rogue OpenAI model, as well as their CEO's demands from OpenAI in response. We then cover an interesting research whitepaper that describes a side channel attack that could let AI transcribe typed text by an audio recording alone. We end with a threat intelligence report about DNS Poisoning attacks against hotel Wi-Fi systems.

This week on the podcast, we cover the crazy saga that unfolded between the popular open-source AI platform Hugging Face and the frontier AI lab OpenAI. After that, we discuss a recent WordPress remote code execution vulnerability WP2Shell and the research process that Searchlight Cyber followed to uncover it sing artificial intelligence. Finally, we end with a quick analysis of Palo Alto Global Protec's authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2026-0257