PortSwigger researcher James Kettle unveiled the HTTP Terminator, an autonomous AI system that invented novel HTTP desync attack techniques and compromised banks, security solutions, and government in…
PortSwigger researcher James Kettle built an AI system called HTTP Terminator that, with human guidance, identified 700 vulnerable websites to HTTP request smuggling, stole a live API key from a bank,…
PortSwigger researcher James Kettle demonstrated HTTP Terminator at Black Hat 2026, an AI system that generates novel attack techniques, producing 30,000 attack vectors from 138 protocol RFCs and test…
At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, researcher James Kettle presented findings showing that agentic AI, while minimally capable of fully autonomous novel attack discovery, …