Three Buddy Problem

Security Conversations

The Three Buddy Problem is a popular Security Conversations podcast that goes beyond industry talking points to discuss what others won’t -- nation-state malware, attribution, cyberwar, ethics, privacy, and the messy realities of securing computers and corporate networks. Hosted by three veteran security pros -- journalist Ryan Naraine and malware paleontologists Costin Raiu and Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade -- the weekly show attracts a highly engaged audience of security researchers, corporate defenders, CISOs, and policymakers. Connect with Ryan on Twitter (Open DMs).

  1. -8 h

    NCSC's Ollie Whitehouse: 'The Biggest Correction of Technical Debt Ever'

    (Presented by TLPBLACK: A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals.) Three Buddy Problem x Offensive AI Con: Ollie Whitehouse, CTO of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre, joins us to explain how Britain is preparing for an AI-driven patch wave and why the NCSC is pressing edge-device vendors to finally ship real telemetry. Plus, we dig into rogue AI agents wandering into a Five Eyes network, along with his forecast that small, capable models could revive self-spreading worms around 2030, all part of what he calls the biggest forced correction of technical debt the industry will ever see. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Ollie Whitehouse. Timestamps: 0:00 Live from Offensive AI Con: meet Ollie Whitehouse 2:46 Why the NCSC is a model for the US 6:48 What a "national technical authority" does 7:49 The Huawei analysis and the push for passkeys 10:50 Independent AI model testing 13:12 Open-weight vs. closed models and AI sovereignty 19:02 Capability density and AI worms by 2030 23:09 Robotics security and lessons from Japan 26:49 Preparing for the patch wave 31:06 Architecture fixes: OT, cross domain, privileged access 32:28 Telecoms security and Salt Typhoon 38:59 Minimum telemetry standards for edge devices 41:55 Market incentives and the EU Cyber Resilience Act 46:05 Rogue agents and the forced correction of technical debt

    NCSC's Ollie Whitehouse: 'The Biggest Correction of Technical Debt Ever'
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    Aaron Grattafiori Explains How LLMs Hunt Patch Variants at Scale

    (Presented by TLPBLACK: A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals.) Three Buddy Problem x Offensive AI Con: Umbriel AI's Aaron Grattafiori breaks down the new offensive-security playbook, using LLMs for patch variant analysis, why the vuln apocalypse hasn't become an exploit apocalypse, and how the death of security through obscurity puts closed-source binaries and firmware within reach. Plus, we discuss rogue agents escaping sandboxes, the eval-driven loop behind recursive self-improvement, and the brutal cost asymmetry that makes offense cheap and defense almost unaffordable. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Aaron Grattafiori. Timestamps: 0:00 Introductory banter 1:12 Umbriel AI pitch: "Smart people in a place to cook” 3:08 Weird, exhausting, exciting time in security 4:00 What AI really changed: speed (and a 30-minute reimplementation) 6:36 Incomplete fixes and the variant-analysis pipeline 9:21 Uplifting, abstraction, and representing vulnerabilities 11:48 Experimentation and the new shape of security companies 14:46 The vuln apocalypse vs. the exploit apocalypse 16:36 Triage, verification, and reward hacking 18:08 Do models reintroduce bugs? Is vuln-free code possible? 24:22 Specialized models and the rise of Jev-style classifiers 26:47 Binaries, firmware, and the death of security through obscurity 31:15 Open source as a requirement and corporate contracting 33:54 Rogue agents: Hugging Face, OpenAI, and lab escapes 39:17 Why defense is so expensive, and running the rig

    Aaron Grattafiori Explains How LLMs Hunt Patch Variants at Scale
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    Joel Todoroff on How Offensive AI Is Rewiring Western Government Ops

    (Presented by TLPBLACK: A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals.) Three Buddy Problem x Offensive AI Con: Former US intelligence and national security official Joel Todoroff joins us live from OffensiveAIcon to explain why his new startup Phyle is building AI for the recon and targeting work that happens long before anyone fires an exploit. We get into bribable sysadmins, the military framing that boxes in Western cyber operations, letters of marque, AI doomerism, and what happens when a frontier model decides mid-project that your use case is off-limits. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Joel Todoroff. Timestamps: 0:00 Live from OffensiveAIcon in Oceanside 1:23 What Phyle builds for governments 3:02 Skepticism of the AI 0-day factory 5:57 Paying a sysadmin vs. burning tokens 9:30 Recon gets less love than weaponization 12:41 Exploit shelf life and target No. 1,000 17:30 Why attacker costs will keep rising 22:23 What HUMINT looks like in 2026 27:06 Why intelligence stovepipes persist 32:16 Cyber as statecraft beyond the military frame 41:23 People will keep making dumb mistakes 48:03 The White House memo and letters of marque 54:06 Doomerism vs. near-term AI harms 1:04:20 PSOA concerns and building guardrails in 1:26:03 Open models, guardrails and zero data retention

    Joel Todoroff on How Offensive AI Is Rewiring Western Government Ops
  4. 25 sept.

    Kernel Exploits in the iOS App Store, ShinyHunters Inside the FBI

    (Presented by TLPBLACK: A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 114: We dig into TypeSafe AI's Jev and the new class of System One models, a new Transluce report on rogue OpenAI agents probing an Australian Medicare portal, Irregular's role in the latest Gemini test breakout, Hacktron's takeover of OpenAI employee accounts and the messy disclosure fight that followed, and what Costin would fix first as OpenAI's CISO for a day. Plus, the soaring price of DGX Sparks and home AI rigs, the White House pressing labs to hold models back from the UK AI Security Institute, Anthropic bringing in Accenture as an evaluator, the FomoPeek App Store app hiding iOS kernel exploits, ShinyHunters' claimed FBI breach, and Nightmare Eclipse going public with identity and a CrowdStrike exploit. Cast: Ryan Naraine, Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade and Costin Raiu. Timestamps: 0:00 Introductory banter 1:57 The Last LABScon wrap-up 9:35 TypeSafe AI's Jev and System One models 26:18 Step-down transformers and lab economics 30:58 Rogue OpenAI agents and the Transluce report 41:40 Irregular and Gemini's test breakout 49:28 Hacktron's OpenAI hack and the disclosure fight 54:57 Costin as OpenAI CISO for a day 1:05:44 Hugging Face defends itself with GLM 5.2 1:17:08 What a home AI rig costs now 1:30:02 White House vs. UK AISI pre-release testing 1:36:52 FomoPeek kernel exploits in the App Store 1:51:19 ShinyHunters claims an FBI breach 2:02:40 Nightmare Eclipse unmasked

    Kernel Exploits in the iOS App Store, ShinyHunters Inside the FBI
  5. 11 sept.

    AI Doomers, Death Cults, and a Million-Dollar WeChat Worm Exploit

    (Presented by TLPBLACK: A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 113: On the show this week, the buddies dig into an Anthropic researcher quitting with a warning that AI could kill us all, the San Francisco "death cult" and their motives, and agent swarms leaving junk on public wikis and university URL shorteners. Plus, a high-quality Anthropic's threat report and the claim that Moonshot was quietly serving Claude tokens as Kimi K3, live MikroTik and Chrome zero-days that landed a day ahead of the patches, and a WeChat worm that hijacks an account via phone calls. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu. Timestamps: 0:00 Introductory banter, TLP Black 5:05 LabsCon, the last one, and JAGS on his keynote 8:24 Costin's agentic CTI training and what old-school CTI is missing 16:27 Anthropic's threat-intel report + IOCs 20:00 APT29 and DarkSword on hotel Wi-Fi 23:34 Bioweapons, guardrails, and what got shut down 28:07 Why is anyone running these attacks on Claude at all? 35:53 Distillation at industrial scale and the Kimi K3 fraud claim 48:43 Chinese models, Americanized, running on DGX Spark 55:00 Mr. America: local AI and the seven-layer cake 1:04:34 Should frontier AI labs poison the distillers? 1:27:05 What the frontier labs did to the security ecosystem 1:34:22 Jacob Coxon quits, and the doomer argument falls apart 1:59:13 Agent swarms littering the internet 2:07:29 Chrome zero-days, MikroTik, patch-gaps

    AI Doomers, Death Cults, and a Million-Dollar WeChat Worm Exploit

À propos

The Three Buddy Problem is a popular Security Conversations podcast that goes beyond industry talking points to discuss what others won’t -- nation-state malware, attribution, cyberwar, ethics, privacy, and the messy realities of securing computers and corporate networks. Hosted by three veteran security pros -- journalist Ryan Naraine and malware paleontologists Costin Raiu and Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade -- the weekly show attracts a highly engaged audience of security researchers, corporate defenders, CISOs, and policymakers. Connect with Ryan on Twitter (Open DMs).

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