Research Worth Reading Week 03/2026

Published: 18 Jan 2026

Claude RedTeam, Claude Hacking, Claude Skills...Is it Claude week?

🤖 AI models are showing a greater ability to find and exploit vulnerabilities on realistic cyber ranges

The latest Claude models are getting noticeably better at hacking: AI models are showing a greater ability to find and exploit vulnerabilities on realistic cyber ranges.

🏴‍☠️ Pwning Claude Code in 8 Different Ways

Getting Claude Code to execute commands even when it's not supposed to. A great read even if you don't care about Claude Code, as it highlights a few tricks and quirks of some of your favorite CLI tools: Pwning Claude Code in 8 Different Ways.

🔐 The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography

A really interesting read on the state of OpenSSL: The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography.

💡 Trail of Bits Skills Marketplace

This week, Trail of Bits released a set of skills for Claude. A lot of great skills that can be used by code reviewers, smart contract auditors, and everyone working in AppSec: Trail of Bits Skills Marketplace.

💂🏻‍♀️ Agent Guardrails and Controls: Applying the CORS Model to Agents

The team at Block wrote a proposal on how something similar to CORS can be used to prevent LLM content injection: Agent Guardrails and Controls: Applying the CORS Model to Agents.

🛠️ OffByWon Fuzzing Framework

Laurent Gaffié (the author of Responder) released a new fuzzer. If you know about his previous work on SMB, you know that it's worth checking out: OffByWon Fuzzing Framework .

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