๐จ Most people donโt understand OSINTโฆ but attackers do.
๐๐๐๐๐ (๐๐ฉ๐๐ง ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐๐ง๐๐) is the process of collecting and analyzing publicly available data to uncover insights about people, systems, or organizations.
No hacking required.
Just better use of whatโs already out there.
And it follows a powerful flow:
๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฏ๐ โ ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ โ ๐๐๐๐ฉ ๐๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ
Hereโs an OSINT arsenal that actually delivers results ๐
๐ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ & ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐
โข Shodan โ shodan.io (find internet-connected devices)
โข Censys โ search.censys.io (scan assets & SSL certs)
โข FOFA โ fofa.info (search exposed systems)
โข Google Dorking โ google.com (advanced search queries)
๐ง ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง & ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง
โข TheHarvester โ github.com/laramies/theHarveโฆ
โข SpiderFoot โ spiderfoot.net
โข Recon-ng โ github.com/lanmaster53/reconโฆ
๐ธ๏ธ ๐๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐ & ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ๐ฌ
โข Maltego โ maltego.com (visual link analysis)
๐ ๐๐๐ & ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ง๐ฌ
โข DNSDumpster โ dnsdumpster.com
โข Sublist3r โ github.com/aboul3la/Sublist3โฆ
โข crt.sh โ crt.sh
โก ๐๐๐๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ & ๐๐ง๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง
โข Nmap โ nmap.org
โข Masscan โ github.com/robertdavidgrahamโฆ
๐ต๏ธ ๐๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ญ๐ & ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ
โข ExifTool โ exiftool.org
โข Metagoofil โ github.com/laramies/metagoofโฆ
โข Wayback Machine โ archive.org/web
๐ป ๐๐จ๐๐ & ๐๐๐๐ค ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐๐ง๐๐
โข GitHub โ github.com
โข GitLeaks โ github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks
โข Intelligence X โ intelx.io
๐ง
๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ง๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐
โข OnionScan โ github.com/s-rah/onionscan
โข GeoSpy โ geospy.ai
โ ๏ธ Reality check:
Attackers already use these toolsโat scale.
Thatโs why cybersecurity is getting harder:
โ Expanding attack surfaces
โ More public data exposure
โ Faster automated reconnaissance
๐ก The fix:
โ๏ธ Continuous monitoring (not one-time scans)
โ๏ธ Attack surface management
โ๏ธ Automating OSINT workflows
โ๏ธ Thinking like an attacker
OSINT is no longer optional. Itโs your early warning system.
๐ Are you using it defensively or leaving it to attackers?
#Cybersecurity #OSINT #InfoSec #ThreatIntelligence #EthicalHacking
๐ค Made with AI
AI agents are becoming the new browsers and MCP is the new attack surface.
Iโm writing a book on MCP Security because almost no one is thinking about how dangerous over-privileged MCP servers + prompt injection can become.
If your agents can touch:
โข Filesystems
โข Email
โข Slack
โข Jira
โข Databases
โข Cloud APIs
โฆthen a malicious MCP server = instant lateral movement.
Security teams arenโt ready for this. Developers arenโt trained for this. And the first โMCP supply chain breachโ is going to be messy.
So Iโm documenting:
โข Real-world MCP risks
โข How attackers will abuse tool access
โข Patterns for securely building + monitoring agent ecosystems
โข A reference architecture for defensive AI
If you want early access:
๐ Reply โMCPโ
MCP is becoming the โUSB-C for AI agentsโโฆ and a massive new attack surface.
The biggest MCP security risks you should know:
โข Fake/malicious MCP servers (e.g., โpostmark-mcpโ stealing emails)
โข Over-privileged tools: FS access, shell, prod DB
โข Prompt-injection via poisoned docs/repos
โข Misconfigured servers (no mTLS, weak auth)
โข 1/3 of MCP servers have critical vulns
How to fix it:
โ
Treat MCP servers as production services
โ
Enforce least privilege
โ
Verify & pin dependencies
โ
Strong auth + API gateways
โ
AI firewalls & tool allow-lists
โ
Log every tool call
โ
Govern your MCP ecosystem
MCP is powerful โ but only if secured.
Follow for more on AI agent security & Agentic SOC.
#Cybersecurity #AI #MCP #AgenticSOC #infosec
Architecting secure enterprise AI agents with MCP
MCP is becoming the standard way to connect AI agents to tools, APIs, and internal systems โ but itโs also becoming a high-value attack surface.
Recent incidents show why:
- A malicious MCP server on npm quietly exfiltrated emails
- RCE bugs + prompt hijacking exposed full agent workflows
- One compromised MCP server can compromise the entire agent stack
How to build secure MCP-based agents:
- Treat all MCP servers as untrusted
- Strong isolation + strict egress
- Least-privilege credentials
- Supply-chain hardening (SBOM, signed releases, code review)
- Policy guardrails at the host layer
- Log + monitor all tool calls
- Red-team your MCP stack
As enterprises adopt agentic systems, MCP becomes a security boundary โ not just a convenience layer.
Iโll be sharing more on secure AI agents and Agentic SOC. Follow for the next breakdown.
๐จ BREAKING: An AI model just ran a nation-state cyber espionage campaign almost fully autonomously.
Anthropic uncovered the first publicly reported AI-orchestrated cyber attack.
Hereโs why itโs a turning point ๐
- A Chinese group used an AI coding model as an agent, not a chatbot
- The AI did 80โ90% of the operation
- It scanned infra, built exploits, escalated access, exfiltrated data
- It even wrote final intelligence reports for the operators
- Thousands of tasks per second beyond human capability
This shows:
โ ๏ธ Guardrails alone arenโt enough
โ ๏ธ Agentic AI can run entire campaigns
โ ๏ธ The barrier to nation-state-level operations is dropping fast
โ ๏ธ AI vs. AI security is now the reality
Defenders cannot rely on โmanual SOCsโ anymore.
We need agentic defense, AI-driven triage, and governance that accounts for autonomous systems.
Iโm building Agentic SOC systems in public.
Follow me for real architectures, agents, and frontline insights.
Cybersecurity in 2026: The Wake-Up Call No One Is Ready For
Threat actors are going all-in on AI and the cybersecurity landscape is about to shift faster than most orgs can respond.
Key trends from Googleโs 2026 Forecast: AI-powered attacks become the norm
โข AI malware
โข Voice cloning
โข Hyper-targeted phishing
โข Autonomous agent attacks
Prompt injection becomes a top enterprise threat
Hackers hijack your AI systems from the inside.
The Agentic SOC is coming: AI handles enrichment, correlation, ATT&CK mappingโฆ Analysts focus on validation + decisions.
Shadow Agents rise: Employees secretly deploy autonomous agents โ data leakage & governance failures.
Ransomware evolves: Attackers pivot to hypervisors + virtualization layers the weakest, least monitored part of most enterprises.
Nation-state ops intensify: Russia, China, Iran, North Korea more espionage, more crypto theft, more cloud reconnaissance.
The next era of cybersecurity belongs to AI-powered defenders or no defenders at all.
Iโm building Agentic SOC systems in public. Follow me for real architectures, code, and breakdowns of this new frontier.
Link: services.google.com/fh/filesโฆ
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From San Francisco ๐บ๐ธ to Rio, @zahidsharp, founder of @tryjutsu, joined us at Meridian 2025 as one of Supermoonโs grantees.
@tryjutsu is building StellaBot, an AI assistant created with @BuildOnStellar that helps both technical and non-technical users explore the @StellarOrg ecosystem.
During the hackathon, StellaBot answered over 1,500 questions in real time, showing how AI can make learning about blockchain faster and more accessible.
Zahidul Islam retweeted
2/ Build and Deploy AI Agents ยท Workshop, Lunch & Demo
Join us for a deep-dive workshop and discussion on taking AI agents from prototype to production.
Co-hosted with @zahidsharp, Co-Founder at Jutsu.
Key details:
โ When: October 9, 12PMโ3PM GMT-7
โ RSVP: luma.com/nodeopsjutsu
โ Where: Frontier Tower, San Francisco
Build & Deploy AI Agents
๐จโ๐ป 2 sessions: Lunch workshop + Evening demo
๐ Talks by @zahidsharp & Juliana Mei
๐ฅ Mediterranean lunch & great community
RSVP ๐
12PM โ luma.com/nodeopsjutsu
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#AIagents #JutsuAI #NodeOps
RAG bots often over-search or stop too early. SIM-RAG adds self-awareness via a Critic.
Top 5: Why self-awareness, no-label training, Critic module, less hallucination, better multi-turn answers. Smarter support chatbots. ๐ SIGIR 2025
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Where is RAG in 2025? Oche et al. survey its evolution & enterprise use.
Top 5: RAG timeline, enterprise adoption, scaling/security gaps, hybrid retrievers, future research. Essential snapshot for AI engineers. ๐ arXiv 2025
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๐จ Prompt engineering is old news. The future is context engineering.
LLMs donโt fail because theyโre โdumb.โ They fail because we feed them the wrong context.
Anthropicโs latest article nails it:
๐ Context is a finite resource with diminishing returns. Too much = โcontext rot.โ Too little = hallucinations.
So how do we engineer context for agents?
1๏ธโฃ Keep prompts clear, structured, and at the right altitude (not brittle logic, not vague fluff).
2๏ธโฃ Curate tools carefully โ fewer, well-scoped tools beat bloated toolsets.
3๏ธโฃ Use canonical examples, not laundry lists of edge cases.
4๏ธโฃ Manage message history like a working memory โ prune aggressively.
5๏ธโฃ Retrieve context dynamically at runtime, not all up front.
Why this matters:
Context is the new code.
The winners in AI wonโt just have better models. Theyโll have smarter context pipelines.
๐ If youโre building AI agents, read the Anthropic piece and rethink how you engineer context. And if this resonates, please share it so more builders stop chasing model size and start optimizing what really matters.
#AI #Agents #ContextEngineering #Anthropic #FutureOfWork
Rule bots โ real support. Yang et al. built a RAG assistant for Transurban: vector search + LLM, handling hallucinations & latency.
Top 5: RulesโRAG, hurdles, hallucinations, dev insights, 8 challenges + 8 fixes. ๐ JSS 2025
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Enterprise chatbots fail not b/c of weak models, but bad docs! ๐
Packowski et al. (IBM) redesigned content + human eval to fix RAG .
Top 5 takeaways:
1๏ธโฃ Content > model size
2๏ธโฃ Modular pipelines last longer
3๏ธโฃ Human eval > QA metrics
4๏ธโฃ Doc design heuristics
5๏ธโฃ Evaluate w/out gold datasets
Source: arxiv.org/pdf/2410.12812
Bad docs = bad chatbots. Packowski et al. (IBM) show that content design matters more than bigger LLMs. Human eval + modular RAG pipelines boosted accuracy & trust.
Top 5: Content > model, modular, human eval, heuristics, no gold sets. ๐ 2025
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I'm excited to share that I'll be speaking at the upcoming event hosted by @QuillAI_Network! About AI and the products Iโve built with my team.
Come join now:
Check out the details here:
xitter.cf/QuillAI_Network/statusโฆ
๐จ AGENTS. GO. LIVE.
Meet the 5 unstoppable builders ready to demo their AI agents on Agents Got Talent โ Episode 2 ๐ฅ
@0xchluff
@andriikrynin
@nischayrawal
@dOrgJelli
@katerinabohlec
They've built. Now they demo.
๐๏ธ 18th April, 9AM PST
๐ Had a blast at the hackathon, building something truly useful!
We created Postt โ an AI-powered social media manager that writes, schedules, and manages your content automatically, saving you hours every week.
Try it out here: app.postt.ai
Huge thanks to @dmwlff (@AnthropicAI), @ilblackdragon (@NEARProtocol), @evanjconrad (@sfcompute), @Cameron_Dennis_ (@near_ai), and the amazing organizers for making this happen! ๐
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4/19๐ฅ FIRST PLACE: Postt reimagines LinkedIn marketing with AI content creation, visuals, scheduling & analytics. Tests showed 92% human approval & 3000% impression growth in a week!
Repo: github.com/jutsuai/postt-ai-โฆ
Agent: app.near.ai/agents/devpad.neโฆ
I share the same vision as @near_ai, where the future will see over a trillion AI agents. To make this vision a reality, we need millions of developers and builders to create them.
With over 27 million web developers already proficient in TypeScript, the foundation is strong for this next wave of innovation.
Itโs an honor to collaborate with the @near_ai team to bring the NEAR AI TypeScript SDK to life. This powerful tool will help upskill and reskill the next generation of AI builders on the NEAR AI platform.
Letโs transform the world with AI, one developer at a time...
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It's been a pleasure working with @zahidsharp and the @tryjutsu team to improve the NEAR AI TypeScript SDK! Check out their newest agent that writes personalized children books for you! Try it out here: app.near.ai/agents/devpad.neโฆ

















