Vulnerability exploitation

Aug 18, 2026

AI Agents Gone Rogue? Build, Defend & Attack AI-Enabled Apps • Katie Paxton-Fear • YOW! 2025

Katie Paxton-Fear explores the emerging security landscape of AI agents, moving beyond chatbots to autonomous, specialized entities. She details five critical vulnerabilities: social engineering, hacking frameworks, malicious agents, AI as accidental insiders (vibe coding), and the rise of hackbots. The talk concludes with a powerful call to action for security professionals to proactively engage and influence AI agent development, emphasizing that 'abstinence-only education doesn't work' when it comes to AI adoption.

Aug 07, 2026

AI Is Learning to Hack. Faster Than We Expected.

Dylan Ayrey (Truffle Security) and Feross Aboukhadijeh (Socket) join Joel De La Garza to discuss how AI models are now actively exploiting vulnerabilities, not just finding them. The conversation covers AI's role in software supply chain attacks, leaked credentials, zero-day generation, and the urgent need for adaptation in the face of rapidly shrinking vulnerability discovery-to-exploitation times.