Security-Research

I come from offensive security and I have spent a lot of time on AI research, MCP, and vulnerability hunting. When Hack The Box shipped its Certified Offensive AI Expert, I jumped on it. This is a retex of the AI Red Teamer path and the certification, focused on how I prepared and the math behind the attacks, kept strictly within HTB’s disclosure rules.

Most people use LLMs for security wrong. They ask ‘find all bugs’ and get noise. This article breaks down the empirical research behind what actually works: structured prompting, adversarial self-verification, CWE-specialized chains, context engineering, and the full composite prompt template that gets you from noise to actionable findings. With numbers.