Microsoft at Black Hat USA 2026: Defending trust in the age of AI and supply chain attacks

In this article 1. Weston on the future of defense 2. Our latest intelligence and response on npm supply chain attacks 3. Follow the research in the Black Hat Briefings 4. Go deeper in Microsoft sessions 5. Visit booth 2144 for research, community, and hands-on defense 6. Plan your week with...

The Race to Field Military Autonomy Is On, Can Trusted Information Infrastructure Keep Pace?

Military forces are under increasing pressure to field autonomous capabilities faster than ever before. Across the U.S., UK, and NATO, new investment, evolving defense strategies, and accelerated acquisition pathways are transforming how capability is delivered, rewarding programs that can move...

San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores

The City Attorney’s Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 13 “face-swap” apps that are overwhelmingly used to target women and girls...

From Recon to Free Flights: Precision Prompt Attacks on AI Agents

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FreeBSD Released the Most Security Advisories in Project History in June 2026

On average, the FreeBSD security team releases about 2 security advisories per month. AI has changed this. In April, the project released 8 advisories, with 6 powered by AI. In May, the count decreased slightly to 7. Today I took a look at the FreeBSD Security Advisory page to check the latest...

PT-2026-60843

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions IBM Engineering AI Hub versions 1.0.0 through 1.2.0 Description Improper neutralization of input during web page generation allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary scripts. This issue is a Cross-Site Scripting XSS flaw, where malicious...

PT-2026-60847

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions IBM Cognos Analytics versions 12.1.3 GA through 12.1.3-2606251736 Description A race condition exists in the Agentic AI assistant's concurrent request-handling logic. This occurs when multiple authenticated users submit report-related tasks...

MAL-2026-10736 Malicious code in memtry-cli (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 11638a6b1b7876a94ef23285cb88f0127c003bb5e4d786dbaba5c30a9cbdfdb7 memtry-cli installs an MCP server whose memtryonboarding tool returns a prompt that instructs the connected AI agent to scan the installer's home...

MAL-2026-10722 Malicious code in @whalent/agent-core (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector d8865ae7d25a498766280337f12ceea445a92bd6a6565e668651a79dbcc152e9 The package's main/bin entry dist/index.cjs implements a remote agent that opens a WebSocket to a gateway configured via WHALENTGATEWAY / WHALENTTOKE...

Using Microsegmentation to Contain Autonomous AI Agents

Discover why traditional security fails against autonomous AI agents and how machine-speed microsegmentation helps stop tool chaining and lateral movement...

Least privilege for AI agents: Identity, access, and tool binding

In this article 1. Real-world scenarios 2. Best Practices: Identity + RBAC + Scope + Safe Tool Binding 3. Looking Ahead AI agents aren't only smarter API callers. They plan, chain actions across systems, and invoke tools in sequences while no single human explicitly approves each step. The...

Least privilege for AI agents: Identity, access, and tool binding

In this article 1. Real-world scenarios 2. Best Practices: Identity + RBAC + Scope + Safe Tool Binding 3. Looking Ahead AI agents aren't only smarter API callers. They plan, chain actions across systems, and invoke tools in sequences while no single human explicitly approves each step. The...

AI Can Find Bugs, But Human Knowledge Still Proves Them

Artificial intelligence AI is changing offensive security, but it has not changed the standard that matters most: a finding has to be proven before it becomes useful. AI-assisted tools can read code quickly, generate payloads, summarize attack surfaces, explain unfamiliar APIs, and run repetitive...

The Hunter's Paradox: Is it time to embrace automated threat hunting?

Should we let AI run our threat hunts? The debate usually splits into two camps. One says, "Yes, obviously! The sheer scale of our security telemetry is impossible for humans to deal with." The other says, "Absolutely not! You can't trust an AI with something this important." The thing is, I thin...

EUVD-2026-44893

The WPBot – AI ChatBot for Live Support, Lead Generation, AI Services plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 8.5.6. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for...

CVE-2026-12510

The AI Engine WordPress plugin before 3.5.5 does not verify that a user owns the chatbot conversation referenced by a client-supplied identifier, allowing users with subscriber-level access to read other users' private conversations and take over their conversation records when the discussions...

EUVD-2026-44870

The BetterDocs WordPress plugin before 4.5.5 does not sanitise an AI-generated documentation summary before storing and outputting it, and the feature that generates it is exposed to unauthenticated users, allowing them to store a malicious payload via prompt injection that executes in the browse...

PT-2026-60416

The AI Engine WordPress plugin before 3.5.5 does not verify that a user owns the chatbot conversation referenced by a client-supplied identifier, allowing users with subscriber-level access to read other users' private conversations and take over their conversation records when the discussions...

A Bootiful Podcast: Russ Miles on Safer, More Productive Interactions with AI

I’m joined, I think, for the second time by my friend, the legendary architect and developer extraordinaire Russ Miles, who has given some of the most cerebral and exciting Spring keynotes and talks ever. And this time, he’s back to talk about — guess what — A.I. As usual, he’s got a different an...

Turning threat intelligence into decisive action with Defender Experts

In this article 1. Upstream: See the campaign before it reaches you 1. In your environment: Follow the threat everywhere it moves 2. See it live at Black Hat USA Security teams have never had more visibility, yet rarely have they felt more uncertain. Signal pours in from endpoints, identities,...