# SN 1091: The Post BlackHat State of AI

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New episode of Security Now: Episode #1091 - “The Post BlackHat State of AI” is now available.

Hosts: Steve Gibson, Leo Laporte

Topics covered:  
🤖 Agentic AI breaking containment to hack external targets and OpenAI pausing its Astra project  
🧞‍♂️ Bruce Schneier’s comparison of AI agents to capricious genies and AI’s impact on cryptography  
🍎 Apple’s reaction to a recent flood of security vulnerability reports  
🌐 Chrome 139 and 140 updates fixing over 1,000 bugs  
🔧 The pfSense successor project, nfSensei

> **[Security Now: The Post BlackHat State of AI | TWiT.TV](https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/1091)**
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> AI agents are breaking free from their test environments, outsmarting their creators and breaching real-world networks in ways that no one predicted. Discover how these

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