PT-2026-47061

Excited to share my research was accepted at @BlackHatEvents USA 2026! 🎩 I'll present how I achieved interactive access to users' AI assistants by chaining: 🔓 Prompt injection 🔓 Privilege escalation 🔓 Path traversal 🔓 .toml injection 🔓 and finally an LD PRELOAD exploit The impact: 🚨 CVE-2026-3219...

Unveiling the Resilience of LLM-Enhanced Search Engines against Black-Hat SEO Manipulation

The emergence of Large Language Model-enhanced Search Engines LLMSEs has revolutionized information retrieval by integrating web-scale search capabilities with AI-powered summarization. While these systems demonstrate improved efficiency over traditional search engines, their security implication...

Evolving our approach to coordinated security research: In scope by default

Today at Black Hat Europe, I raised our commitment to customer security through our partnerships with the security research community...

SEO spam and hidden links: how to protect your website and your reputation

When analyzing the content of websites in an attempt to determine what category it belongs to, we sometimes get an utterly unexpected result. It could be the official page of a metal structures manufacturer or online flower shop, or, say, a law firm website, with completely neutral content, but o...

awesome-windows-exploitation

This is a curated list of Windows Exploitation resources and tools. The list is organized by category, including Windows stack overflows, Windows heap overflows, kernel-based Windows overflows, Windows kernel memory corruption, return-oriented programming, Windows memory protections, bypassing...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 08/15/2025

Don’t forget to take the Metasploit User Engagement Survey! We had an awesome time at DEF CON and Black Hat with our very own zeroSteiner and jheysel-r7 presenting on five different occasions! We announced our user engagement survey there, and would love for all of you to participate until the en...

What happened in Vegas (that you actually want to know about)

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Last week I flew 5,000 miles to Las Vegas for Black Hat USA. After navigating the casino carpet labyrinth and finding the only venue in Nevada that serves a proper English breakfast tea with milk lifesaver, I've decided Black Hat fee...

New TETRA Radio Encryption Flaws Expose Law Enforcement Communications

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a fresh set of security issues in the Terrestrial Trunked Radio TETRA communications protocol, including in its proprietary end-to-end encryption E2EE mechanism that exposes the system to replay and brute-force attacks, and even decrypt encrypted traffic...

Black Hat 2025: Why We Built a Museum Instead of a Booth

Think you know what to expect from a conference booth? Think again. Forget the cliches: the swag destined for the back of your wardrobe, the formula one simulators, the marketing trickery. Instead, step into a new kind of conference experience, one that takes you on a journey through past, presen...

The Booker Prize Longlist and Hacker Summer Camp

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. This week the Booker Prize Longlist was released and it featured several books I've read this year a couple that are on my TBR To Be Read, a couple that I had not heard of, and a couple that make me scratch my head and question why...

The insider’s guide to Black Hat 2025

Cut through 100+ talks to find what matters: AI vulnerabilities, cloud attacks, and where to grab drinks...

Cisco Talos at Black Hat 2025: Briefings, booth talks and what to expect

Cisco Talos is back at Black Hat with new research, threat detection overviews and opportunities to connect with our team. Whether you're interested in what we're seeing in the threat landscape, detection engineering or real-world incident response, here's where and how to find us: Visit us at th...

xsser

XSSER ========== Presentation From XSS to RCE 2.75 - Black Hat Europe Arsenal 2017 Demo Version 2.0 - 2015: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIjb28IYMQgqqqApoGRCZO40vP-eKsgf Version 2.5 - 2016: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRic6PgcrsWGkgacL6WFnSQKVRZIoofRj Version 2.75 - 2017: Non...

BRB, pausing for a "Sanctuary Moon" marathon

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Yesterday, Cisco Talos debuted the first Humans of Talos episode, where I interviewed Hazel Burton, a face and voice you're probably familiar with. In our conversation, Hazel shared not just the story of how she found her way onto th...

Microsoft at Black Hat USA 2025: A unified approach to modern cyber defense

Microsoft will be at Black Hat USA 2025, August 5–7 in Las Vegas, and we’re bringing you a unified, practitioner-driven experience built around real-world insights, threat intelligence, incident response, and hands-on AI expertise. We believe security teams are strongest when intelligence, tools,...

Drug cartel hacked cameras and phones to spy on FBI and identify witnesses

The "El Chapo" Mexican drug cartel snooped on FBI personnel through hacked cameras, and listened in on their phone calls to identify and kill potential witnesses, the US Department of Justice has said. And seven years on, the Bureau's defenses against this kind of surveillance are still inadequat...

m.bpt.me Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-4040460

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

brownpapertickets.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-4040086

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Threats in space (or rather, on Earth): internet-exposed GNSS receivers

What is GNSS? Global Navigation Satellite Systems GNSS are collections, or constellations of satellite positioning systems. There are several GNSSs launched by different countries currently in operation: GPS US, GLONASS Russia, Galileo EU, BeiDou Navigation Satellite System BDS, China, Navigation...

DragonRank Black Hat SEO Campaign Targeting IIS Servers Across Asia and Europe

A "simplified Chinese-speaking actor" has been linked to a new campaign that has targeted multiple countries in Asia and Europe with the end goal of performing search engine optimization SEO rank manipulation. The black hat SEO cluster has been codenamed DragonRank by Cisco Talos, with victimolog...