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Jun 16, 2025 Brandon Karpf, founder of T-Minus Space Daily and cybersecurity expert, joins Maria Varmazis to dive into the intriguing world of agentic AI. They discuss its implications for cybersecurity and the space industry, exploring challenges such as metadata vulnerabilities. The conversation covers law enforcement crackdowns on darknet drug marketplaces and the rise of sophisticated ransomware and stealthy malware. They also address the importance of collaboration in healthcare cybersecurity to combat evolving threats. A must-listen for tech enthusiasts!
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Agentic AI Metadata Risks
- Agentic AI's chaining of systems exposes extensive metadata revealing organizational intent.
- Adversaries can infer strategies merely by monitoring communication contexts, not just content.
Metadata Mapped Network Vulnerabilities
- Researchers mapped Comcast's key network exchange points just by metadata analysis.
- This revealed critical vulnerabilities capable of taking Comcast offline via simple physical disruptions.
Side-Channel AI Communication Leak
- Ben Gurion University used side-channel attacks on encrypted ChatGPT packets to deduce communication topics with over 50% accuracy.
- They replicated exact prompts and responses with over 20% accuracy, exposing privacy risks.