
My Honest Review on C-AgAIPen Exam
I passed C-AgAIPen on the first try. Real difficulty, lab breakdown, comparison with C-AI/MLPen, and whether the cert is worth it in 2026.
CVE disclosures, AI red-teaming, and CTF writeups — published as they clear validation.

Over seven days, my Linux honeypot recorded 108,114 sessions, 21,038 commands, and 15 unique payloads. What first looked like routine Mirai-era noise led to a coordinated RedTail/XMRig deployment involving SSH scanning, rival-miner cleanup, and persistence.

I passed C-AgAIPen on the first try. Real difficulty, lab breakdown, comparison with C-AI/MLPen, and whether the cert is worth it in 2026.

Switching from AI red teaming to mechanistic interpretability. The identity gap, transferable skills, and what the career pivot actually requires.

I pentested my own graduation project days before demo day. OTP bypass, prompt injection against Gemini 2.5 Flash, and what broke.

A manual appsec & AI Red Teaming assessment of our AI-powered senior project. OTP bypass, visual prompt injection against Gemini 2.5 Flash, and JSON break-out technique one t-shirt recommended for a wedding.

A simple prompt about security policies tricked an AI chatbot into leaking its API key. Real-world case study on AI deployment security failures.

Red teaming an AI-powered shell application — prompt injection, command injection, and sandbox escape techniques against LLM-integrated CLI tools.

Detailed walkthrough of the C-AI/MLPen certification exam — preparation strategy, exam format, key challenges, and practical tips for AI/ML penetration testing.

Research analyzing how AI text detection tools disagree when facing hybrid evasion techniques. Cross-detector benchmark with paraphrasing and stylistic manipulation.