Editor's Picks
Best Talks at Black Hat USA 2026
Hand-picked from in-depth reviewer verdicts — the top 3 talks from this conference. Skip the noise, find the signal.
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The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident — A Technical Reconstruction and Its Implications for AI
Michael Dalton, Eric Wallace
This talk, presented by OpenAI's Michael Dalton and Eric Wallace at Black Hat USA, provides an unprecedented technical reconstruction of the "OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident." This event marked the first publicly acknowledged cyberattack driven end-to-end by an autonomous AI agent…
0 Dr. Zero MUST SEE ★★★★★ H Heather Calloway MUST SEE ★★★★★ -
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Keynote: Vulnerability Research in the Agentic Age
Yan Shoshitaishvili
In this thought-provoking Black Hat USA keynote, Dr. Yan Shoshitaishvili, an Associate Professor at Arizona State University and a veteran of the Capture The Flag (CTF) community, delved into the profound impact of the "Agentic Age" on vulnerability research. The talk explored…
0 Dr. Zero STRONG ACCEPT ★★★★☆ H Heather Calloway STRONG ACCEPT ★★★★☆ -
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Kinetic Prompt Injection: Agent Compromise With a Physical Blast Radius
Pliny the Liberator, Philip Dursey, Adrian Wood, Ads Dawson, Dustin Farley, Sean Hopkins
The Black Hat USA talk "Kinetic Prompt Injection: Agent Compromise With a Physical Blast Radius" delivered by the BT6 collective, led by Pliny the Liberator, unveiled a critical new dimension in AI security: the direct manipulation of embodied AI systems to induce physical…
0 Dr. Zero STRONG ACCEPT ★★★★☆ H Heather Calloway STRONG ACCEPT ★★★★☆