Thursday, May 14, 2026

LLM07 System Prompt Leakage 2026 — 15 Extraction Techniques Every AI Red Teamer Needs | Day 11

🤖 AI/LLM HACKING COURSE FREE Part of the AI/LLM Hacking Course — 90 Days Day 11 of 90 · 12.2% complete ⚠️ Authorised Targets Only: System prompt extraction must only be performed against applications you have explicit written authorisation to test. SecurityElites.com accepts no liability for misuse. The most illuminating moment in any AI red team engagement is when the system prompt appears. Every other finding before it is an inference — a guess about what the application can do…

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Wednesday, May 13, 2026

AI Infostealer Malware — How Credential Theft Got Smarter in 2026

IBM's X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2026 identified credential theft as the single most common initial access technique — ahead of every exploitation technique — confirming that attacking the credential layer is more reliable for attackers than exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities — used in more attacks than any vulnerability exploit. Infostealers are the primary delivery mechanism: malware that silently harvests saved passwords, session tokens, browser cookies, and crypto wallets from infected machines. In 2026, AI has made infostealers faster to create, harder…

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DLL Hijacking 2026 — Search Order Abuse, Phantom DLLs & Persistence | Hacking Course Day 40

🔐 ETHICAL HACKING COURSE FREE Part of the Ethical Hacking Mastery Course — 100 Days Day 40 of 100 · 40% complete ⚠️ Authorised Lab Environments Only. DLL hijacking on systems you don't own or have explicit written permission to test is illegal. All exercises use TryHackMe or your own controlled Windows VM. Windows applications load DLLs. When a DLL isn't found at an absolute path, Windows searches a sequence of directories in a defined order. If any of those…

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LLM06 Excessive Agency 2026 — Hijacking AI Agents to Take Real-World Actions | AI LLM Hacking Course Day 10

🤖 AI/LLM HACKING COURSE FREE Part of the AI/LLM Hacking Course — 90 Days Day 10 of 90 · 11.1% complete ⚠️ Authorised Targets Only: Testing LLM06 excessive agency — including redirecting agent tool use — must only be performed against systems you have explicit written authorisation to test. Never trigger real email sends, file modifications, or API calls against production systems or real user data during testing. Use Burp Collaborator or your own test endpoints for out-of-band confirmation. SecurityElites.com…

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AI-Powered Phishing 2026 — How BEC Became a Multi-Persona AI Campaign

Business email compromise used to involve one attacker impersonating one executive. In 2026, Proofpoint documented BEC campaigns where AI coordinates multiple fake personas simultaneously — a fake CFO, a fake legal adviser, and a fake supplier contact all building a relationship over weeks before the final payment request arrives. The multi-persona campaign builds trust that no single-source impersonation can achieve, and AI handles all the coordination. My breakdown of how AI transformed phishing from a volume game to a precision…

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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Shadow AI Security Risks 2026 — Biggest Worry for IT Industry

Gartner surveyed 175 employees and found that 57% use personal GenAI accounts for work purposes. 33% admit to inputting sensitive information into unapproved tools. These aren't reckless employees — they're efficient ones, using the fastest available tool to get their job done. Shadow AI is what happens when an organisation deploys AI tools without clear policies, or when the approved tools are slower or less capable than the personal ones employees already use. My complete breakdown of what shadow AI…

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Google SAIF — The Secure AI Framework Every Security Team Needs in 2026

Mandiant's M-Trends 2026 report — released this week — specifically recommends Google's Secure AI Framework (SAIF) as the foundational approach for organisations trying to secure their AI deployments. SAIF is Google's answer to the question every security team is asking: how do we build and deploy AI systems that don't create the exact vulnerabilities we're trying to defend against? My breakdown of the six SAIF principles, how they map to the real attack patterns documented in 2026, and how to…

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