Open Threat Research

⚡️ In an effort to augment existing @OTR_Community projects with AI, @Cyb3rPandaH and I are extending the @HunterPlaybook using Agent Skills 🤖 to describe known workflows and leverage progressive disclosure, so agents access the right knowledge at the right time. 🏹 The hunt lifecycle (plan ➡️ execute ➡️ report) needs structure, and we recently took some time to show how the planning stage can be expressed as Agent Skills using @code and GitHub Copilot, together with @tavilyai and @Microsoft Sentinel Data Lake MCP Servers 🔥. Blog post link in the comments.

Awesome talk from @Cyb3rWard0g on AI Agents... this for me is the immediate future of LLM's and it's so exciting! youtube.com/watch?v=zoAPS1…

Thank you for the opportunity @x33fcon ! One of the best conferences of the year! I appreciate all the support 🙏❤️

✨ What an amazing week teaching at @x33fcon with @Cyb3rPandaH ! 🚀 We dove into AI Agents for Security Operations from the ground up and enjoyed all the great questions from such curious minds! 🙏 Thanks for making it an unforgettable experience. Can’t wait to see what you build next! #poland #gdynia #x33fcon @OTR_Community

It’s amazing to see @daprdev agents being featured in a hackathon at MS Build!!! ❤️🚀🔥 LG!!! Can’t wait to see what people build with it and the feature requests 😊 @diagridio

@daprdev agents demos 😎🔥❤️ happening now!

🙏 That moment when you realize that what started as a weekend curiosity to learn more about agentic systems 🤖 has become a project others find useful and in innovative ❤️ Thank you @diagridio and @bibryam for sharing! @daprdev Agents!

❤️ Happy to share my journey in creating an AI Agentic Workflow Engine with @daprdev for developer-friendly, code-first workflows, agent orchestration, state management, and communication. blog.openthreatresearch.com/floki-building… ⚡️ Building my own AI Agentic framework was an incredibly rewarding experience, leading to the creation of project Floki 👁‍🗨! 🎉 I’m also very excited to announce that I’ve decided to donate the Floki codebase to the @daprdev project and am partnering with the Dapr community to evolve it further. Today, Dapr also launched "Dapr Agents" 🤖 the evolution of Floki, and I’m very proud to see it join the Dapr community ❤️! #opensource #AI #Dapr @OTR_Community

🚀 Finishing the long weekend by completing Unit 1: AI Agents Fundamentals from @huggingface 🎓. I learn best by coding, so I’m sharing my notebooks that help me cover some of the fundamentals in each unit! 🤗 📚 Repo: github.com/Cyb3rWard0g/HF… 📝 My Unit 1 notes cover: ✅ Downloading & setting up SmolLM2 locally ✅ Performing next token prediction ✅ Defining tools for agents ✅ Writing ToolCalling & ReAct agents from scratch with transformers 🐍 & SmolLM2 🤖 🔜 Excited to dive into the next units and share more! Follow along for more! ✨ @OTR_Community

✨ Early registration for #BHUSA 2025 trainings is now open 😎 Whether you're defining POCs, MVPs, or requirements for agentic systems, my class will give you hands-on experience and dive into core components of agentic workflows to build adaptive, autonomous systems for any security challenge 💜 👉 Register here: #rise-of-the-agents-building-autonomous-llm-based-ai-agents-for-security-43641" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">blackhat.com/us-25/training…

📢 Just a reminder ⚡️ There is still time to apply for these exciting roles on my team! Applications are accepted until January 12, 2025 🗓️! ✨We’re looking to proactively explore AI in offensive security operations, improve our simulation environments (agentic playgrounds), and continue researching and enabling autonomy to defend Microsoft! 🌎

✨Before the year ends, I’m super excited to share that my team continues to grow! 🤖 As a firm believer that offense informs defense and vice versa 💜, our Autonomous Defense and Protection Team (ADAPT) is proactively exploring how AI can enrich offensive security operations ⚡️. We’re also continuing to invest in elevating our simulation environment infrastructure to support agentic playgrounds and simulate attack scenarios for both training and evaluation of AI systems ⚔️. Last but not least, we continue to invest in enabling autonomy to defend our organization 🦾🛡️. 📢I’m hiring for 4⃣ exciting roles: 🔥 Principal Security Researcher: An experienced Red Team Operator with engineering expertise who will collaborate with applied scientists to leverage LLMs and agentic systems to identify and operationalize adversary techniques. 👉 jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/… 🤖 Principal Offensive AI Scientist: Drive innovation using AI to enhance offensive security capabilities while partnering with experienced offensive security researchers. 👉 jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/… ⚔️ Principal Security Engineer: Build secure, scalable environments for attack simulations, supporting agentic playgrounds and realistic adversary scenarios. 👉 jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/… 🤖 Principal Applied Scientist: Design AI-driven workflows to enable autonomy and tackle complex security challenges. 👉 jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/… Positions are 100% remote and US-based (potential expansion for the right candidate). Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 12, 2025, 🗓️. #Cybersecurity #LLM #AIAgents #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AI #hiring #redteam #blueteam

🚀⚡️Happy to share the first release of Floki! 🤖 🔥 Repo: github.com/Cyb3rWard0g/fl… A framework I’ve been working on to dive deeper into multi-step agentic workflows, event-driven orchestration of multi-agent systems, and shared communication, all powered by @daprdev ❤️ 🎯 Service Invocation: Built-in service discovery and error handling for agent communication. ⚡️ Pub/Sub: Real-time, event-driven collaboration via a shared message bus. 🔄 Workflow API: Autonomy and deterministic flows with LLM-based decision-making. 🧠 State Management: Agents retain context across interactions. 🤖 Actors: Agents as virtual actors that handle messages sequentially for scalability and simplicity.

Since starting my Cybersecurity career with a background in AI, I’ve dreamed of collaborating with a team passionate about both fields 😃 Today my dream becomes a reality 🙏🏽 I am excited to join @BlueVoyant as an AI Researcher 🤩 and I can’t wait to take on new challenges 🤓💜

📣 As part of the Autonomous Defense & Protection Team (ADAPT), my team is growing and taking shape with recent hires, and I’m excited to announce a new opportunity to join us! 🔥Apply here ➡️ jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/… 🚀 I’m hiring a Principal Applied Scientist to support our current research efforts in enabling autonomy via LLM-based AI agents during investigations and hunting operations, with the main goal of defending and protecting Microsoft. ✅ Dive deep into knowledge graph research, integrating these concepts within LLM and multi-agent workflows to equip AI agents with the right information and context for critical decisions in security operations. ✅ Generate synthetic data and environments, creating realistic attack scenarios to serve as the foundation for training autonomous agents. ✅ Help build frameworks that support the development of an agentic playground for red vs. blue operations, enhancing the evaluation of agent capabilities across security scenarios. Positions are 100% remote and US-based. Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 21st, 2024. #Cybersecurity #LLM #AIAgents #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AI #KnowledgeGraphs #hiring

My Gradient Boosted Regression Tree model won the most accurate prediction award 🤩 in the 2024 international #CherryBlossom prediction competition 📈 Yay!! Notebook: bit.ly/GBRT_notebook Description: bit.ly/GBRT_descripti… #OpenToWork @GeorgeMasonU @OTR_Community

🚀 Lately, I’ve been fascinated by LLM-based AI Agents, so I built my own from scratch to learn more about them 🤖✨ blog.openthreatresearch.com/rise-of-the-pl… I hope it helps and inspires you to build your own 🛠️! #GenAI #LLM #AI @OTR_Community ❤️

RT @Cyb3rWard0g: 📢 Thrilled to be teaching with @fr0gger_ at @BlackHatEvents #BHUSA 🌟 🚀Boost your career by learning how to apply Python &…

🚀 Last conversation of the day @jupyterthon ! Join us now in a small panel to discuss use-cases of @ProjectJupyter notebooks and Generative AI applied to Security 🔥 @clearbluejar @ianhellen @PeteABryan @ashwinpatil @lmeyerov 🔴 Live Now: aka.ms/JupyterthonLiv…