{"slug": "http-terminator-portswiggers-ai-invents-new-attacks", "title": "HTTP Terminator: PortSwigger’s AI Invents New Attacks", "summary": "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 testing them against 700+ authorized sites, uncovering a zero-day in Apache Traffic Server. PortSwigger open-sourced the tool the same week.", "body_md": "PortSwigger researcher James Kettle walked off the Black Hat 2026 stage having demonstrated something most security teams assumed was years away: an AI system that does not find known bugs — it invents new attack techniques, then proves them against live targets. HTTP Terminator generated 30,000 attack vectors from 138 protocol RFCs, hit 700+ authorized sites across banking, government, and critical infrastructure, and uncovered a zero-day in Apache Traffic Server. PortSwigger open-sourced it the same week. A New Kind of Desync Attack HTTP desync attacks — also called request smuggling — exploit disagreements between how a front-end proxy and a […]\n\nThe post", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/http-terminator-portswiggers-ai-invents-new-attacks", "canonical_source": "https://byteiota.com/http-terminator-ai-autonomous-attack/", "published_at": "2026-08-10 23:13:52+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-10 23:35:12.965309+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "ai-products"], "entities": ["PortSwigger", "James Kettle", "Black Hat 2026", "HTTP Terminator", "Apache Traffic Server"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/http-terminator-portswiggers-ai-invents-new-attacks", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/http-terminator-portswiggers-ai-invents-new-attacks.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/http-terminator-portswiggers-ai-invents-new-attacks.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/http-terminator-portswiggers-ai-invents-new-attacks.jsonld"}}