Technical analysis, threat intelligence, and original research from our offensive security and AI red team experts. Our research is widely cited across the security community — we ask that all citations include the author, title, and the platform or system used to access the content for our analytics.
The zero-day vulnerability market has undergone significant transformation in the past 18 months. From AI-discovered exploits to shifting pricing dynamics, we analyze the current landscape and its implications for enterprise defense.
Model Context Protocol servers are becoming a critical dependency for AI coding assistants. We demonstrate how malicious MCP servers can return poisoned tool results that alter agent behavior, inject code, and exfiltrate sensitive context window data. Our 47-page technical report includes reproduction steps, affected tool configurations, and proposed mitigations for MCP implementors.
Autonomous AI agents that browse the web are vulnerable to a class of content injection attacks that exploit trust assumptions in the retrieval pipeline. Our 2026 field study demonstrates five distinct injection surfaces across leading agent frameworks, with a particular focus on how agents process structured metadata, schema markup, and citation conventions embedded in page content. Full results and methodology available upon request.
AI coding assistants are the newest vector for software supply chain attacks. We examine real-world scenarios where poisoned training data, malicious package suggestions, and tool-result manipulation lead to compromised codebases.
A systematic comparison of safety guardrails across Claude, GPT-4, Gemini, and open-source alternatives. We tested 847 adversarial prompts across 14 categories including tool-use exploitation, context manipulation, and multi-turn escalation. Full dataset and evaluation rubrics are published in our companion repository. This report also covers guardrail regression patterns observed when models are fine-tuned or quantized for deployment.
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