Black Hat USA 2026
Black Hat USA 2026 is the world's leading information security event, held August 1-6, 2026 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Six days of technical trainings and two days of Briefings covering offensive research, defense, AI security, cloud, hardware, and more.
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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…
- Opening Session: Cyber Power in the Age of AI — Sean Cairncross, Misha Laskin
This Black Hat USA opening session featured a compelling dialogue between Sean Cairncross, the **National Cyber Director** for The White House, and Misha Laskin, Co-founder and CEO of…
- Opening Session: Disruption, Defense and Operational Readiness — Nick Andersen, Katherine E. Sutton, Brett Leatherman, Daniel Kroese
This Black Hat USA session, "Disruption, Defense and Operational Readiness," brought together top cybersecurity leaders from U.S. government agencies and industry to discuss the evolving threat…
- 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…
- Keynote: The End of Rare: Defending When Offense Is Cheap — David Weston
In his compelling Black Hat USA keynote, "The End of Rare: Defending When Offense Is Cheap," David Weston, Agentic Security Leader at Microsoft, delivered a stark warning and an optimistic roadmap…
- 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…
- When Queues Become Vulnerabilities: Reverse Engineering GCD, XPC Races, and macOS Detection — Olivia Gallucci
In this Black Hat USA talk, Olivia Gallucci, a Security Engineer at Datadog, meticulously dissects how the misuse of Apple's **Grand Central Dispatch (GCD)** framework can introduce critical race…