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AI as an Amplifier for Human Tradecraft: how scale can meet sharper intelligence.
What’s New: In their #LABScon 2025 talk, @dreadnode.bsky.social's Brad Palm and @machinavelli.com show how agentic AI can explore every analytical pathway — at speed and scale.
What’s New: In their #LABScon 2025 talk, @dreadnode.bsky.social's Brad Palm and @machinavelli.com show how agentic AI can explore every analytical pathway — at speed and scale.
October 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
AI as an Amplifier for Human Tradecraft: how scale can meet sharper intelligence.
What’s New: In their #LABScon 2025 talk, @dreadnode.bsky.social's Brad Palm and @machinavelli.com show how agentic AI can explore every analytical pathway — at speed and scale.
What’s New: In their #LABScon 2025 talk, @dreadnode.bsky.social's Brad Palm and @machinavelli.com show how agentic AI can explore every analytical pathway — at speed and scale.
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🧵 Tonight at midnight, CISA 2015 and SLCGP expire as Congress debates another shutdown.
We're witnessing a cyber identity crisis: threats don't discriminate between civilian and military sectors, but our defenses remain fragmented. What needs to happen immediately: 🧵(1/4)
We're witnessing a cyber identity crisis: threats don't discriminate between civilian and military sectors, but our defenses remain fragmented. What needs to happen immediately: 🧵(1/4)
September 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
🧵 Tonight at midnight, CISA 2015 and SLCGP expire as Congress debates another shutdown.
We're witnessing a cyber identity crisis: threats don't discriminate between civilian and military sectors, but our defenses remain fragmented. What needs to happen immediately: 🧵(1/4)
We're witnessing a cyber identity crisis: threats don't discriminate between civilian and military sectors, but our defenses remain fragmented. What needs to happen immediately: 🧵(1/4)
Tonight at midnight, two critical pieces of cybersecurity legislation are due to expire: the CISA 2015 and the SLCGP.
Read @velvethamm3r.bsky.social's take on why reauthorizing these programs will help CISA transform into a integrated defensive command: dreadnode.io/blog/from-co...
Read @velvethamm3r.bsky.social's take on why reauthorizing these programs will help CISA transform into a integrated defensive command: dreadnode.io/blog/from-co...
From Compute to Congress: To Address CISA's Authority Gap, Reauthorize CISA 2015 and SLCGP
Two critical cybersecurity programs—CISA 2015 and SLCGP—expire September 30, 2025. Learn why Congress must act now to preserve voluntary information sharing, fund state/local security, and operational...
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September 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Tonight at midnight, two critical pieces of cybersecurity legislation are due to expire: the CISA 2015 and the SLCGP.
Read @velvethamm3r.bsky.social's take on why reauthorizing these programs will help CISA transform into a integrated defensive command: dreadnode.io/blog/from-co...
Read @velvethamm3r.bsky.social's take on why reauthorizing these programs will help CISA transform into a integrated defensive command: dreadnode.io/blog/from-co...
Dreadnode is a proud sponsor of @sentinelone.com's #labscon25!
Heading to Scottsdale this week? Catch @machinavelli.com and Brad Palm's talk, Auto-Poking the Bear—Analytical Tradecraft in the AI Age, on Thursday at 2pm MT.
Or, shoot us a DM to find time to meet up onsite!
Heading to Scottsdale this week? Catch @machinavelli.com and Brad Palm's talk, Auto-Poking the Bear—Analytical Tradecraft in the AI Age, on Thursday at 2pm MT.
Or, shoot us a DM to find time to meet up onsite!
September 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Dreadnode is a proud sponsor of @sentinelone.com's #labscon25!
Heading to Scottsdale this week? Catch @machinavelli.com and Brad Palm's talk, Auto-Poking the Bear—Analytical Tradecraft in the AI Age, on Thursday at 2pm MT.
Or, shoot us a DM to find time to meet up onsite!
Heading to Scottsdale this week? Catch @machinavelli.com and Brad Palm's talk, Auto-Poking the Bear—Analytical Tradecraft in the AI Age, on Thursday at 2pm MT.
Or, shoot us a DM to find time to meet up onsite!
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🧠 @machinavelli.com and Brad Palm (@dreadnode.bsky.social) ask: can we trust AI-assisted CTI?
🔗 labscon.io/speakers/martin-wendiggensen
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🔗 labscon.io/speakers/martin-wendiggensen
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September 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Incoming: Dreadnode paper drop from Shane Caldwell and the crew.
PentestJudge—Judging Agent Behavior Against Operational Requirements: arxiv.org/abs/2508.02921
Explore how we built an LLM-as-judge system for evaluating the operations of pentesting agents (inspired by PaperBench).
PentestJudge—Judging Agent Behavior Against Operational Requirements: arxiv.org/abs/2508.02921
Explore how we built an LLM-as-judge system for evaluating the operations of pentesting agents (inspired by PaperBench).
August 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Incoming: Dreadnode paper drop from Shane Caldwell and the crew.
PentestJudge—Judging Agent Behavior Against Operational Requirements: arxiv.org/abs/2508.02921
Explore how we built an LLM-as-judge system for evaluating the operations of pentesting agents (inspired by PaperBench).
PentestJudge—Judging Agent Behavior Against Operational Requirements: arxiv.org/abs/2508.02921
Explore how we built an LLM-as-judge system for evaluating the operations of pentesting agents (inspired by PaperBench).
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✍ After talking AI Action Plan on @cyberscoop.bsky.social, wrote up @dreadnode.bsky.social thoughts on implementation ➡️ dreadnode.io/blog/five-ta...
‼️ While we debate frameworks, adversaries build AI attack capabilities. We need: evaluation ecosystems, red teaming, and procurement standards.
‼️ While we debate frameworks, adversaries build AI attack capabilities. We need: evaluation ecosystems, red teaming, and procurement standards.
August 1, 2025 at 11:48 PM
✍ After talking AI Action Plan on @cyberscoop.bsky.social, wrote up @dreadnode.bsky.social thoughts on implementation ➡️ dreadnode.io/blog/five-ta...
‼️ While we debate frameworks, adversaries build AI attack capabilities. We need: evaluation ecosystems, red teaming, and procurement standards.
‼️ While we debate frameworks, adversaries build AI attack capabilities. We need: evaluation ecosystems, red teaming, and procurement standards.
In our latest blog, Shane Caldwell breaks down the process of creating a fully integrated, self-verifying agentic system that can do modern Windows Active Directory red team operations, without human interaction.
Read it here: dreadnode.io/blog/evals-t...
Read it here: dreadnode.io/blog/evals-t...
Evals: The Foundation for Autonomous Offensive Security
Learn how to build robust evaluations for autonomous red team agents that can perform Windows Active Directory operations. This blog covers action space design, programmatic verification, and measurin...
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August 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
In our latest blog, Shane Caldwell breaks down the process of creating a fully integrated, self-verifying agentic system that can do modern Windows Active Directory red team operations, without human interaction.
Read it here: dreadnode.io/blog/evals-t...
Read it here: dreadnode.io/blog/evals-t...
Rise and shine! We're going live on Off By One with Stephen Sims this afternoon—meet us here at 11 AM PT: www.youtube.com/live/BzOmGw-...
Building and Deploying Offensive Security Agents with Dreadnode
YouTube video by Off By One Security
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July 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Rise and shine! We're going live on Off By One with Stephen Sims this afternoon—meet us here at 11 AM PT: www.youtube.com/live/BzOmGw-...
In this edition of our From Compute to Congress policy blog series, Dreadnode Head of Policy Daria Bahrami explores how the TEST AI Act and red teaming standards can establish U.S. leadership in AI security: dreadnode.io/blog/from-co...
From Compute to Congress: Setting the Global Standard for AI Security
Daria explores how the TEST AI Act and red teaming standards can establish American leadership in AI security—a winning policy roadmap from Critical Effect DC 2025.
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June 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
In this edition of our From Compute to Congress policy blog series, Dreadnode Head of Policy Daria Bahrami explores how the TEST AI Act and red teaming standards can establish U.S. leadership in AI security: dreadnode.io/blog/from-co...
Read @rad-ads.bsky.social's breakdown of Claude's attack sequence against the notoriously hard-to-solve "turtle" challenge: dreadnode.io/blog/ai-red-...
AI Red Teaming Case Study: Claude 3.7 Sonnet Solves the Turtle Challenge
See how Claude solved a notoriously difficult AI/ML CTF challenge, going beyond pattern matching to genuine problem-solving under adversarial conditions.
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June 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Read @rad-ads.bsky.social's breakdown of Claude's attack sequence against the notoriously hard-to-solve "turtle" challenge: dreadnode.io/blog/ai-red-...
Introducing AIRTBench, an AI red teaming benchmark for evaluating language models’ ability to autonomously discover and exploit AI/ML security vulnerabilities.
Read the paper on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2506.14682
Open-source dataset and benchmark eval code repo: github.com/dreadnode/AI...
Read the paper on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2506.14682
Open-source dataset and benchmark eval code repo: github.com/dreadnode/AI...
June 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Introducing AIRTBench, an AI red teaming benchmark for evaluating language models’ ability to autonomously discover and exploit AI/ML security vulnerabilities.
Read the paper on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2506.14682
Open-source dataset and benchmark eval code repo: github.com/dreadnode/AI...
Read the paper on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2506.14682
Open-source dataset and benchmark eval code repo: github.com/dreadnode/AI...
Check out @machinavelli.com's "Build with AI" Rigging workshop from @pivotcon.bsky.social: github.com/vmsv/pivot20...
GitHub - vmsv/pivot2025-llmworkshop
Contribute to vmsv/pivot2025-llmworkshop development by creating an account on GitHub.
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May 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Check out @machinavelli.com's "Build with AI" Rigging workshop from @pivotcon.bsky.social: github.com/vmsv/pivot20...
v3 of Rigging is out now. If you’re working with LLMs to build agents or run evaluations, check it out. We just added:
- Prompt caching for supported providers
- A unified tool system for function calling and fallbacks to xml/json parsing
- Native MCP integration
docs.dreadnode.io/open-source/...
- Prompt caching for supported providers
- A unified tool system for function calling and fallbacks to xml/json parsing
- Native MCP integration
docs.dreadnode.io/open-source/...
docs.dreadnode.io
May 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
v3 of Rigging is out now. If you’re working with LLMs to build agents or run evaluations, check it out. We just added:
- Prompt caching for supported providers
- A unified tool system for function calling and fallbacks to xml/json parsing
- Native MCP integration
docs.dreadnode.io/open-source/...
- Prompt caching for supported providers
- A unified tool system for function calling and fallbacks to xml/json parsing
- Native MCP integration
docs.dreadnode.io/open-source/...
Introducing our new blog series: "From Compute to Congress: Decoding AI Policy" by Dreadnode Head of Policy Daria Bahrami | Read the first post here: dreadnode.io/blog/from-co...
May 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Introducing our new blog series: "From Compute to Congress: Decoding AI Policy" by Dreadnode Head of Policy Daria Bahrami | Read the first post here: dreadnode.io/blog/from-co...
Are manual or automated attacks more effective when attacking LLMs?
We found that automated approaches achieve significantly higher success rates (69.5%) compared to manual techniques (47.6%).
More insights on LLM attack execution methods here 👉 dreadnode.io/blog/the-aut...
We found that automated approaches achieve significantly higher success rates (69.5%) compared to manual techniques (47.6%).
More insights on LLM attack execution methods here 👉 dreadnode.io/blog/the-aut...
May 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Are manual or automated attacks more effective when attacking LLMs?
We found that automated approaches achieve significantly higher success rates (69.5%) compared to manual techniques (47.6%).
More insights on LLM attack execution methods here 👉 dreadnode.io/blog/the-aut...
We found that automated approaches achieve significantly higher success rates (69.5%) compared to manual techniques (47.6%).
More insights on LLM attack execution methods here 👉 dreadnode.io/blog/the-aut...
May 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
What's your take on the growing dominance of automated attacks and the implications for AI red teams? Here's ours— based on our analysis of 30 LLM challenges, attempted by 1,674 unique Crucible users, across 214,271 attack attempts: arxiv.org/abs/2504.19855
April 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
What's your take on the growing dominance of automated attacks and the implications for AI red teams? Here's ours— based on our analysis of 30 LLM challenges, attempted by 1,674 unique Crucible users, across 214,271 attack attempts: arxiv.org/abs/2504.19855
@moohax.bsky.social joins @gregotto.bsky.social on CyberScoop's Safe Mode podcast! Tune in at the 10-minute mark for a discussion on how AI fits into the offensive security narrative and what it means for tooling and defenses: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZReR...
Dreadnode CEO Will Pearce on the ever-changing field of offensive AI security
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April 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
@moohax.bsky.social joins @gregotto.bsky.social on CyberScoop's Safe Mode podcast! Tune in at the 10-minute mark for a discussion on how AI fits into the offensive security narrative and what it means for tooling and defenses: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZReR...
Headed to RSA? Come meet the Dreadnode crew!
Whether you're looking for a private deep dive into our tech or want to hang out and talk offensive AI research, we'd love to connect.
Limited availability; Come and get it: calendly.com/tori-dreadno...
#BayArea #SanFrancisco #RSAC2025 #OffensiveAI
Whether you're looking for a private deep dive into our tech or want to hang out and talk offensive AI research, we'd love to connect.
Limited availability; Come and get it: calendly.com/tori-dreadno...
#BayArea #SanFrancisco #RSAC2025 #OffensiveAI
April 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Headed to RSA? Come meet the Dreadnode crew!
Whether you're looking for a private deep dive into our tech or want to hang out and talk offensive AI research, we'd love to connect.
Limited availability; Come and get it: calendly.com/tori-dreadno...
#BayArea #SanFrancisco #RSAC2025 #OffensiveAI
Whether you're looking for a private deep dive into our tech or want to hang out and talk offensive AI research, we'd love to connect.
Limited availability; Come and get it: calendly.com/tori-dreadno...
#BayArea #SanFrancisco #RSAC2025 #OffensiveAI
Hey, we know that guy! Catch Dreadnode's @radads.bsky.social on NASDAQ #TradeTalks alongside @bugcrowd.com CEO
@davegerryjr.bsky.social and NFL CISO @tomasmald.bsky.social.
Tune in for a candid conversation on the intersection of AI and cybersecurity: www.nasdaq.com/videos/ever-...
@davegerryjr.bsky.social and NFL CISO @tomasmald.bsky.social.
Tune in for a candid conversation on the intersection of AI and cybersecurity: www.nasdaq.com/videos/ever-...
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April 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Hey, we know that guy! Catch Dreadnode's @radads.bsky.social on NASDAQ #TradeTalks alongside @bugcrowd.com CEO
@davegerryjr.bsky.social and NFL CISO @tomasmald.bsky.social.
Tune in for a candid conversation on the intersection of AI and cybersecurity: www.nasdaq.com/videos/ever-...
@davegerryjr.bsky.social and NFL CISO @tomasmald.bsky.social.
Tune in for a candid conversation on the intersection of AI and cybersecurity: www.nasdaq.com/videos/ever-...
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Will be talking about @dreadnode.bsky.social‘s great open-source rigging repo and how to build your own LLM workflows! Super excited!
Workshop 2: Building with AI - with Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com and Vitor Ventura @vventura.bsky.social ,one of the best assorted CTI-AI builder duet on the market
✅retrieve local text data
✅LLM reasoning system with the tools for searches and analyses.
✅ AI agents
3/5
✅retrieve local text data
✅LLM reasoning system with the tools for searches and analyses.
✅ AI agents
3/5
April 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Will be talking about @dreadnode.bsky.social‘s great open-source rigging repo and how to build your own LLM workflows! Super excited!
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8 new Challenges now live in Crucible: platform.dreadnode.io/crucible
These Challenges might look familiar… they first appeared at DEFCON 30 and were recently refactored for Crucible—enjoy! [Filter>Subject>DEFCON-30]
8 new Challenges now live in Crucible: platform.dreadnode.io/crucible
These Challenges might look familiar… they first appeared at DEFCON 30 and were recently refactored for Crucible—enjoy! [Filter>Subject>DEFCON-30]
March 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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8 new Challenges now live in Crucible: platform.dreadnode.io/crucible
These Challenges might look familiar… they first appeared at DEFCON 30 and were recently refactored for Crucible—enjoy! [Filter>Subject>DEFCON-30]
8 new Challenges now live in Crucible: platform.dreadnode.io/crucible
These Challenges might look familiar… they first appeared at DEFCON 30 and were recently refactored for Crucible—enjoy! [Filter>Subject>DEFCON-30]
New blog: Dreadnode’s Policy Recommendations for the U.S. AI Action Plan. Our response focuses on two critical strategies:
1️⃣ Leveraging AI to protect America
2️⃣ Attacking AI to find its limits
Read our complete response on the Dreadnode blog: dreadnode.io/blog/policy-...
1️⃣ Leveraging AI to protect America
2️⃣ Attacking AI to find its limits
Read our complete response on the Dreadnode blog: dreadnode.io/blog/policy-...
Dreadnode’s Policy Recommendations for the U.S. AI Action Plan
Read Dreadnode’s AI policy recommendations for the U.S. AI Action Plan, which focuses on leveraging AI to protect America and attacking AI to find its limits.
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March 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
New blog: Dreadnode’s Policy Recommendations for the U.S. AI Action Plan. Our response focuses on two critical strategies:
1️⃣ Leveraging AI to protect America
2️⃣ Attacking AI to find its limits
Read our complete response on the Dreadnode blog: dreadnode.io/blog/policy-...
1️⃣ Leveraging AI to protect America
2️⃣ Attacking AI to find its limits
Read our complete response on the Dreadnode blog: dreadnode.io/blog/policy-...
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Live Stream with Dreadnode Founders | LinkedIn
📅 Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2025 | ⏰ Time: 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
Dreadnode, the company at the forefront of offensive AI research and development, recently announced its Series A funding announcement ...
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March 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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