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Feross Aboukhadijeh

Founder and CEO, Socket. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Feross Aboukhadijeh is a cybersecurity entrepreneur and prolific open-source maintainer who created WebTorrent, JavaScript Standard Style, and YouTube Instant. He leads Socket, a developer-first security platform focused on detecting and defending against software supply chain attacks and malicious open-source packages.

What they said6 Shows1

Everything Feross Aboukhadijeh said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

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Aboukhadijeh: Rival frontier models share universal hallucinations for non-existent software packages

“There was a research published recently about what they're calling kind of like universal type of squats or universal hallucinations where all the frontier models all have the same make the same mistake and sort of assume there are certain packages that exist …”

Feross Aboukhadijeh Aug 6, 2026 ▶ 4:06 AI Is Learning to Hack. Faster Than We Expected.

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Aboukhadijeh: Frontier AI Models Drastically Shrink Time to Exploit Vulnerabilities

“The frontier models are gonna cause, you know, a, you know, they are causing kind of a massive reduction in the time between the vulnerability discovery and vulnerability exploitation.”

Feross Aboukhadijeh Aug 6, 2026 ▶ 7:50 AI Is Learning to Hack. Faster Than We Expected.

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Aboukhadijeh: AI prompt payloads evade traditional endpoint detection and response tools

“A lot of times the payloads are actually prompts and that, that bypasses a lot of you know, typical kind of EDR tooling, because, you know, it's just like a markdown file that your cloud is running.”

Feross Aboukhadijeh Aug 6, 2026 ▶ 14:36 AI Is Learning to Hack. Faster Than We Expected.

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Aboukhadijeh: Unvetted public package registries are the easiest targets for attackers

“They're gonna pick the easiest way in, and the lowest hanging fruit now has become, you know, just publishing malware to public registries because they know that there's no vetting happening and, you know, developers are likely to install them.”

Feross Aboukhadijeh Aug 6, 2026 ▶ 3:52 AI Is Learning to Hack. Faster Than We Expected.

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Aboukhadijeh: Threat Actors Open-Sourced a Vibe-Coded NPM Malware Toolkit

“One of the threat groups actually kind of posted their, you know, open source to their kind of vibe coded toolkit for others to use to be able to do this. You know, we've seen copycat attacks happen since then.”

Feross Aboukhadijeh Aug 6, 2026 ▶ 13:56 AI Is Learning to Hack. Faster Than We Expected.

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Aboukhadijeh: Attackers Time NPM Worms for RSA and Black Hat

“I noticed the attackers seemed to pick RSA and Black Hat as the times they wanted to start these NPM worms.”

Feross Aboukhadijeh Aug 6, 2026 ▶ 21:14 AI Is Learning to Hack. Faster Than We Expected.

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Feross's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
a16zLEDGER	Founder and CEO, Socket	1	6	100% 2/2	full record on the a16z Podcast →