Amit Spitzer

Writing & Insights

A feed of Amit's writing on cybersecurity, AI, and venture diligence from Medium and Substack, updated as new posts publish.

Medium

Thirty-Seven Companies Just Joined an AI Security Alliance.

Medium · August 2026
Substack

Industrial Ransomware Jumped 12% Last Quarter. The Plants Shut Themselves Down, Not the Hackers.

Substack · August 2026
Medium

GitLab Fixed a Remote Code Execution Bug in June and Skipped the CVE.

Medium · August 2026
Substack

165 Companies Got Extorted Through Snowflake. Not One Snowflake Vulnerability Was Used.

Substack · August 2026
Medium

Three AI Labs Disclosed Sandbox Escapes in Five Weeks. Two of Them Used the Same Outside Tester.

Medium · August 2026
Substack

Five Cybersecurity Vendors Are Asking Washington for One Global OT Standard. They Already Meet It.

Substack · August 2026
Medium

Ransom Payments Fell to $769,000 This Year.

Medium · August 2026
Substack

VMware Shipped the Patch on July 29. By August 5, Attackers Had Already Backdoored 343 Networks.

Substack · August 2026
Medium

The LiteLLM Breach Hit 2,500 Companies in Three Hours. Not One Model Misbehaved.

Medium · August 2026
Substack

A Ransomware Gang Didn't Break Your MFA. It Rewrote the Code That Checks It.

Substack · August 2026
Medium

A Hacker Read 560,000 Salesforce and ServiceNow Records for 17 Months. Nobody Had to Log In.

Medium · August 2026
Substack

North Korea's Fake Job Offer Trick Is Six Years Old. It Still Beats Every Zero-Day Defense We've Built.

Substack · August 2026
Medium

Three AI Agent Security Startups Raised $338 Million in Fourteen Days.

Medium · August 2026
Substack

An AI Coding Agent Handed Over DNS Control 9 Times Out of 10. It Never Did Anything Unauthorized.

Substack · August 2026
Medium

AI Agents Found 84 Flaws in the Software Running Global Phone Networks.

Medium · August 2026

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