
Threat Talks · 2026-07-28 · 22 min
What if AI stopped being the assistant to cybercriminals and became the attacker itself? That's no longer hypothetical. JADEPUFFER is the first documented case of ransomware run entirely by an AI agent: it broke into a production database, hit a wall mid-attack, then found another way in within 31 seconds, faster than most human penetration testers can react. Rob Maas, Field CTO at ON2IT, sits down with Yuri Wit, SOC DevOps Engineer at ON2IT, to trace how agentic malware evolved out of AI-assisted attacks into a threat that plans, executes, and pivots entirely on its own. Episode resources, transcript and show notes: Read the companion blog post: ️ Subscribe on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, links below. Threat Talks is a podcast by ON2IT cybersecurity and AMS-IX. We delve deep into the dynamic world of cybersecurity, one episode at a time. New episode every Tuesday. #ThreatTalks #ZeroTrust #firewallsecurity #NetworkSecurity #CyberSecurity #infosec Charpters: 00:00:00 Cold open: can AI become the attacker?