ZERO DAY: The Invisible War

Mastering Vulnerability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

by Dr. Junaid Farooq

Overview

In an era where software runs the world and intelligent systems drive critical decisions, the most dangerous threats are the ones you never see coming.

ZERO DAY: The Invisible War explores how artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the discovery, exploitation, and defense of zero-day vulnerabilities—faster than organizations can adapt.

This book bridges deep technical understanding with practical real-world insights, offering a complete lens into how vulnerabilities are created, found, weaponized, and mitigated in the age of AI.

Whether you’re a security engineer, researcher, architect, or AI practitioner, this book equips you with the mental models, tools, and defensive principles required to stay ahead of intelligent adversaries.

What This Book Covers

🔍 How AI Is Reshaping the Attack Surface

• New trust boundaries in AI-native systems

• The evolving structure of modern vulnerabilities

• How intelligent agents observe, predict, and exploit system behavior

🤖 AI-Driven Discovery

• LLM-assisted code analysis & triage

• Program analysis, symbolic execution & fuzzing

• Automated workflows for large-scale vulnerability hunting

💥 Modern Exploitation Techniques

• Payload design in AI-observed environments

• Evasion, automation, and stealth

• The intersection of LLMs and exploit development

🧭 Post-Exploitation in the AI Era

• Persistence & lateral movement when systems “watch back”

• Multi-agent threat behavior

• Counter-forensics in a world of autonomous detectors

🛡️ Defense & Resilience

• Detection engineering, deception, and autonomous response

• AI-strengthened secure-by-design principles

• Real-world defensive frameworks and patterns

📈 The Zero-Day Economy

• Markets, brokers, incentives, and geopolitical pressures

• The economics of weaponized vulnerabilities

• How AI changes the value and lifecycle of a zero-day

🔮 The Future

• Quantum-era implications

• Evolution of cryptography

• Long-term defensive strategy in an AI-first world

Who This Book Is For

This is the ideal book for:

• Security engineers (red, blue, purple teams)

• Penetration testers & exploit developers

• Software architects & SREs

• AI/ML engineers involved in safety & security

• CISOs, CTOs & cybersecurity leaders

• Researchers in AI, ML, and computer security

If you build or defend software, this book speaks your language.