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book · 2025

adversarial
minds.

Offensive psychology, social engineering, and adversarial reasoning — the human-layer companion to AATMF and SEF.

Why the same attack works against humans and language models. A field-tested methodology for treating cognition itself as an attack surface — and a defensive framework for the systems built on top of it.

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kai aizen
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adversarial
minds.
same attack.
different substrate.
a field manual for the human layer
01 · about the book

thesis.

Phishing, jailbreaking, prompt injection, and pretexting are surface variations on a single attack pattern: an adversary supplying inputs that subvert a reasoning system's intended behavior. Once you see the pattern, the techniques become families and the defenses become engineering — not folklore.

Adversarial Minds is the long-form treatment of that thesis. Three years of red-team engagements, jailbreak research, and social-engineering work distilled into a methodology you can apply against humans, language models, or the agentic systems where the two meet.

authorKai Aizen
formatpaperback · ebook
isbn978-965-598-977-9
pages~280
audiencered teamers · researchers · defenders
relatedAATMF · SEF · P.R.O.M.P.T
statuspublished 2025
02 · contents

contents.

part IFoundationsWhy adversaries are reasoners, not exploits. The substrate problem.
part IIThe Mind as a SystemCognitive primitives. Bias as exploitable state. Trust as authentication.
part IIIAttack VocabularyPersona, framing, decay, drift, compositional pressure.
part IVFrom Human to MachineWhy the same attacks work against LLMs. Translating SE primitives to prompts.
part VDefense by DesignEngineering trust boundaries when the user is the attack surface.
part VIField NotesCases — phishing campaigns, jailbreaks, agent compromises — annotated.
03 · early reads
Reads less like a textbook and more like a methodology — exactly what the field needs.
— reader
Treats persuasion as adversarial input. The bridge between the social engineer and the prompt engineer.
— reader
04 · author

kai aizen.

Independent offensive security researcher. 23 published CVEs, 5 Linux kernel mainline patches, creator of AATMF, P.R.O.M.P.T, and SEF. Hakin9 contributing author. NVD/MITRE contributor.

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