Initial Access

Bishop Fox offensive security researchers, experts, and hackers take a real look at the latest cybersecurity news headlines and have a straight take on them. The goal is simple: do you actually need to care about this, or is it just another variation of the same fundamental security problems we've been dealing with for years?

Initial Access is a technology podcast hosted by Bishop Fox, with 30 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Bishop Fox hosts Initial Access, a technology show with 30 episodes published.

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  Episode #29

  Live from DEF CON at RedTail: Red Teaming After AI

  Aug 14, 202647 minS1

  This week's episode is different. No headlines, no CVEs. Just a live sit-down from Bishop Fox's RedTail meetup at DEF CON, with Bishop Fox's John Untz, Richard Brown, and Billy Giles, joined by Matt Bryant of OpenAI's Red Team, talking through what's signal vs. noise on the AI hype cycle, where AI actually earns its keep on offense, and what happens to the red-teaming pipeline if the entry-level rungs get automated away.

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  Episode #30

  AI Sandbox Escape, Autonomous Ransomware Agent, Self-Spreading npm Worm

  Aug 14, 202651 minS1

  This is the debut episode from Bishop Fox's Managed Security Services team — not new headlines, but three stories the show already covered, revisited through the lens of what an operator actually does about them. First, JadePuffer, the ransomware Sysdig called the first fully autonomous, LLM-driven attack, with no human operator at any stage. Second, two OpenAI models that escaped an internal evaluation sandbox and breached Hugging Face's production systems while chasing a benchmark score. Third, Mini Shai-Hulud, the npm worm that rode a legitimate TanStack maintainer merge into more than 160 packages. Here's what stood out from the operator chair. Security Headlines: JadePuffer: The First Successful LLM-Driven Ransomware Attack , Dark Reading Swarm of OpenAI Agents Exploit Artifactory Zero-Day to Escape Sandbox and Breach Hugging Face , InfoQ Mini Shai-Hulud Worm Compromises TanStack, Mistral AI, Guardrails AI & More Packages , The Hacker News

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  Episode #28

  Rogue Agents, Bounty Cuts & the AI Brake Pedal

  Jul 31, 202659 minS1

  This episode covers a ChatGPT flaw that let one link spin up a fully authorized rogue AI agent, GitHub's public bug bounty cuts, Origin Energy's second breach in months, and 1,100+ AI lab employees asking Washington to help pace AI development, plus a sit-down with Bishop Fox's Dan Petro on catching cheaters in Super Smash Bros. Melee. Security Headlines: ChatGPT AgentForger Flaw Could Deploy Rogue Workspace Agents via a Phishing Link , The Hacker News GitHub Cuts Public Bug Bounty Payouts, Moves Top Rewards to VIP Tier , The Hacker News Data Breach Confirmed After Australian Energy Giant Origin Is Hacked , SecurityWeek OpenAI and Anthropic endorse call for government to 'pace' AI progress , The Washington Post Also mentioned: Event: Black Hat & DEF CON 2026 (Hacker Summer Camp) Virtual Session: Where AI Breaks: Field Notes from GenAI + Agentic Testing Video Interview: Responsible AI Governance, Risk, and Security with Daniel Wallance (McKinsey) Customer Story: Securing Smart Home Technology Join the conversation in the Bishop Fox Discord server and in the new Bishop Fox subreddit.

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  Episode #27

  Rogue Agents, Invisible Screens, and a Vulnerability Clearinghouse

  Jul 27, 20261h 4mS1

  This episode breaks down OpenAI's own AI agent hacking into Hugging Face without human direction, an Android attack that hides commands in invisible screen text to hijack AI phone agents, and the White House's new Gold Eagle vulnerability clearinghouse, plus a sit-down with Bishop Fox's Emilio Gallegos on snowpick, his new open source ServiceNow exposure scanner. Security Headlines: OpenAI Says Its AI Technology Acted on Its Own in 'Unprecedented' Hack of Company , ABC News Open-Source Android AI Agents Could Let Invisible Screen Text Run Code on Host PCs , The Hacker News US Launches Vulnerability Clearinghouse Amid AI-Fueled Surge in Flaws , Cybersecurity Dive Also mentioned: Event: Black Hat & DEF CON 2026 Blog: A Millisecond of Predictability: Why CVE-2026-11374 Is Hard to Exploit Blog: Introducing snowpick: Testing ServiceNow for Public Data Exposure XKCD Comic: AI-Box Experiment Join the conversation in the Bishop Fox Discord server and in the new Bishop Fox subreddit.

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  Episode #26

  Attribution and OpSec at Scale

  Jul 20, 202644 minS1

  This week's episode is different. Bishop Fox Red Teamers Brandon Kovacs, Thomas Wilson, and Rob Antonucci talk through what attribution actually looks like when device-level telemetry breaks anonymity, what young attackers with real skills but zero tradecraft have in common, and how one credential reset becomes the master key to everything downstream. Security Headlines: Tracking Peter Stokes and The Com: Allison Nixon and Her Work Unmasking Cybercriminals, Zero Day ShinyHunters Raids Nottingham Uni for Student, Alumni Data, The Register Join the conversation in the Bishop Fox Discord server and in the new Bishop Fox subreddit.

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