This Week in AI Security - 27th November 2025
Modern Cyber with Jeremy Snyder - A podcast by Jeremy Snyder - Giovedì
In this week's episode, Jeremy covers seven stories that highlight the continuing pattern of API-level risks, the rise of multi-agent threats, and new academic insights into LLM fundamentals.Key stories include:RCE via PyTorch: A high-severity vulnerability (with an assigned CVE) was discovered in the widely-used PyTorch package, enabling Remote Code Execution (RCE) through malicious payloads at the API layer. This reinforces the trend of the API being the primary attack surface for AI applications.AI Browser Local Command Execution: Researchers found an API flaw in AI browsers that allowed a malicious instruction set to execute local commands on a user's machine via an embedded extension.Klein Bot Vulnerabilities: An open-source coding agent was found to have multiple security flaws, including the exfiltration of API keys and the disclosure of its underlying model (Grok), validating OWASp's risk categories.Multi-Agent Risk in ServiceNow: Researchers demonstrated that in ServiceNow’s new A-to-A agentic workflows, default configurations place agents in the same network, allowing them to communicate and be exploited using the privileges of the human user who created them.The "Subspace Problem" of Red Teaming: Academic research argues that current LLM red teaming methods are flawed because they test human language, not the numerical token strings the LLM actually processes, meaning predictable token-level vulnerabilities remain hidden.AI Evaluation Shift: A paper argues that non-deterministic LLM environments require a shift away from binary "yes/no" security checks (like traditional network security) toward scenario-based testing for better risk evaluation.Positive ROI of AI in Security: A Google paper provides positive data for early movers, showing that AI can triage at least 50% of security incidents, leading to reduced human workloads and faster response times, providing a strong case for simple, prompt-based AI improvements in security operations.------Worried about AI security? Get Complete AI Visibility in 15 Minutes. Discover all of your shadow AI now. Book a demo of Firetail's AI Security & Governance Platform: https://www.firetail.ai/request-a-demo
