Frostfire Labs is an independent offensive AI security research lab. We specialize in vulnerability research, exploit development, and adversarial probing of agent frameworks, model context protocols, retrieval pipelines, and multimodal AI systems.
PHILOSOPHY
Frostfire takes its name from a duality between fire and frost. Fire is what AI has become, a rapid, powerful force that can heat or burn, build or destroy. The difference between those outcomes is control. Frost is the discipline of control: deliberate, methodical, a counterweight to uncontrolled escalation. Offensive research is the fire. Coordinated disclosure, controlled lab environments, and reproducible methodology are the frost.
RESEARCH PROCESS
Frostfire Labs operates in four phases.
01 — HYPOTHESIS
Before any payload is constructed, we declare what we are testing: target stack, target model, payload variant, success criteria, and authorization scope. Pre-registration prevents post-hoc rationalization of weak results.
02 — LAB EXECUTION
Experiments run exclusively against owned targets in a controlled environment, never against third-party production systems. Each run produces a complete artifact bundle: configuration, payload, transcript, observations, and verdict.
03 — EXPLOIT DEVELOPMENT
Each finding is built into a working exploit. The proof-of-concept demonstrates the defect end-to-end against the lab environment, sized to validate the vulnerability without enabling mass exploitation.
04 — DISCLOSURE
Vendor notification under coordinated disclosure, followed by publication of the technical write-up. Full policy at //disclosure.
FOUNDER
Tom Breuer founded Frostfire Labs to conduct offensive research into the security of AI systems. His interest in artificial intelligence was shaped by Ben Goertzel’s vision of beneficial AGI as a fundamental and irreversible shift in human civilization.
His position on offensive research extends from that view. The systems leading toward AGI expose new attack surfaces at every layer: agent frameworks, protocol boundaries, retrieval pipelines, multimodal inputs. Identifying and demonstrating those surfaces before adversaries do is, in his view, the offensive researcher’s contribution to the broader project. Every system is vulnerable; the only question is how it gets attacked first.
CONTACT
General inquiries: tom@frostfirelabs.io
Vulnerability disclosure: disclosure@frostfirelabs.io
PGP key: /pgp-key
