CSChris Sheridaninhalosecurityhasnodedev.hashnode.dev·2h ago · 5 min readAi is doing it again: Strong armed by AI for Bitcoin JADEPUFFER is the world’s first documented case of an end-to-end autonomous, "agentic" ransomware campaign driven entirely by a Large Language Model (LLM) agent. Discovered and published by the Sysdig00
CSChris Sheridaninhalosecurityhasnodedev.hashnode.dev·4h ago · 3 min readBuilding Halo’s Multi-Agent Architecture: From Single Loop to Five Specialists Today I moved Halo from a single autonomous loop to a proper five-agent architecture: Planner, Orchestrator, Vulnerability Discovery, Attacker, and Debugger. Here’s how it came together, and what I le00
CSChris Sheridaninhalosecurityhasnodedev.hashnode.dev·21h ago · 5 min readTokenization in Modern LLMs: The Hidden Mechanics Behind AI Costs and ReasoningModern AI feels like magic until you peek under the hood and realize it is more like a highly disciplined assembly line of linguistic fragments. This piece rebuilds the core ideas from Naveen Kumar VR00
CSChris Sheridaninhalosecurityhasnodedev.hashnode.dev·21h ago · 3 min readThe Bug That Made My Pentesting Agent Give Up The symptom I was testing a tool — httpx, used for HTTP probing — standalone from the terminal. Worked fine. Ran it through the full agent loop against the same target. The agent refused to even try i02C
CSChris Sheridaninhalosecurityhasnodedev.hashnode.dev·22h ago · 2 min read GEMMA-by-GOOGLESending client data to a cloud-based AI to assist with penetration testing defeats the purpose entirely. That concern is what started Halo. Halo is an autonomous penetration testing agent that runs 1001A
