🧠PROMPT ENGINEERING & REVERSE PROMPTING FREE Course Hub → Day 4 of 7 · 57% complete ⚠️ Educational Use Only. Prompt injection techniques are covered here for security education. All exercises target systems you own or authorised platforms (PortSwigger labs). Never apply injection techniques to production systems without explicit written permission. Prompt injection is OWASP LLM01 — the number one vulnerability in the LLM Top 10 — and it's the one I've found most consistently in real production deployments.…
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Monday, May 4, 2026
ChatGPT Hacked — What Actually Happened and What It Means for Users 2026
"ChatGPT hacked" gets searched thousands of times every time an AI security story makes headlines. The reality is more nuanced than a single breach: ChatGPT and its users have been affected by several distinct security issues in 2023–2026 — from platform-side vulnerabilities to credential theft targeting individual accounts to prompt injection attacks exploiting the AI itself. I cover AI security professionally, and this is the honest rundown of what has actually happened, what it means for people using the platform,…
AI Scams 2026 — How Criminals Use AI to Steal Money (Real Cases)
A finance worker in Hong Kong wired $25 million after a video call with people who turned out to be entirely AI-generated deepfakes. A British energy company wired €220,000 to a fraudster after a phone call from what sounded exactly like their CEO — a voice cloned from public recordings. A grandmother in California lost $18,000 to someone she thought was her grandson in trouble, but was an AI voice clone reading from a script. These aren't future warnings. They…
Sunday, May 3, 2026
Is My Password Leaked? Check for Free 2026 — Complete Breach Check Guide
Over 15 billion credentials are circulating in hacker forums and dark web marketplaces right now. Your email address and password combination might be among them — from a breach at a site you forgot you even had an account with years ago. The good news: checking is free, takes 30 seconds, and tells you exactly what's been exposed and when. Here's how to check using the tools on this site, what the results actually mean, and the exact steps to…
What Is Vibe Coding? Why Developers Are Shipping Insecure AI Code in 2026
On March 31, 2026, Anthropic's Claude Code CLI shipped a 59.8MB source map file in its npm package — exposing roughly 512,000 lines of proprietary TypeScript to anyone who downloaded it. The tool had itself been largely vibe-coded. A misconfigured packaging rule caused the leak, not a logic bug. Existing security scanners didn't catch it. That incident captures everything I want you to understand about vibe coding and security: the risk isn't that AI writes bad code on purpose. The…
Can AI Be Hacked? 10 Ways How Hackers Hack AI Systems in 2026
Yes — AI systems can be attacked, manipulated, and exploited, and it happens regularly. I cover AI security professionally, and my assessment of the current threat landscape is that several of these vulnerability classes have already caused documented real-world financial harm. The vulnerabilities aren't the same as traditional software bugs, which makes them harder to patch and easier to underestimate. An AI that's been manipulated doesn't crash or throw an error — it continues working, just producing the output the…
How to Tell If Your Phone Is Hacked 2026 — 10 Warning Signs + Fix Guide
Your phone battery is draining faster than usual. Your data usage spiked and you don't know why. An app appeared that you didn't install. These can all be normal phone behaviour — or they can be warning signs. In my security work I deal with device compromise regularly, and the honest truth is that most phones showing these symptoms are not hacked. But some are. Here are the 10 actual warning signs, what each one really means, and exactly what…
Saturday, May 2, 2026
What Hackers Can Do With Your IP Address And What They Can’t 2026
Someone has your IP address. Maybe you saw it in a Discord server, maybe someone sent you a link that logged it, maybe you're just wondering what's actually possible. I'm going to give you the honest answer — not the scary version, not the dismissive version. Some things are genuinely possible. Most of the scary stuff you've seen on YouTube is either outdated, illegal, or requires far more than just your IP. Here's exactly what the real threat picture looks…
AI CAPTCHA Bypass 2026 — How AI Solves Any CAPTCHA in Seconds
CAPTCHA was designed to separate humans from bots by finding tasks humans could do and machines couldn't. That gap closed completely around 2023 — I track this because it has direct implications for every application that uses CAPTCHA as its sole bot defence. Modern AI vision models solve image CAPTCHAs faster and more accurately than humans. Audio CAPTCHAs fall to speech recognition in seconds. reCAPTCHA v3's behavioural scoring is being gamed by mouse movement simulators trained on real human behaviour…
AI Model Theft — Extraction Attacks 2026 — Stealing Trained Models Through the API
Every query you send to a commercial AI API teaches an attacker about the model's decision boundaries. I've seen this explained in briefings for years — the math on why it's a serious threat is undeniable. Send enough of them — crafted specifically to probe those boundaries — and you can reconstruct a functional clone of the model without ever touching the weights. That's model extraction: intellectual property theft through the API the owner gave you access to. The model…
2026 LLM Jailbreak Landscape
The 2026 LLM Jailbreak Landscape — A Working Pentester's Synthesis of Public Research By Lokesh Singh (Mr Elite) — Founder, Securityelites.com Published: May 2, 2026 URL: /research/2026-llm-jailbreak-landscape/ Category: AI in Hacking → LLM Hacking Reading time: ~14 minutes This is a working pentester's read of the public LLM jailbreak research published between January 2024 and April 2026 — what's actually happening in the field, drawn from cited papers and disclosed incidents, not from anyone's marketing deck. The five things that…
How Hackers Use Social Engineering in 2026 — 7 Manipulation Techniques That Actually Work
How hackers use social engineering in 2026 :— Technology gets patched. People don't. Every firewall, intrusion detection system, and endpoint protection platform becomes irrelevant when a hacker calls the help desk pretending to be a stressed executive locked out of their account. Or sends a perfectly crafted email using AI to replicate a colleague's writing style. Or simply walks through a tailgated door wearing a high-vis vest and carrying a ladder. Social engineering is the attack that bypasses every technical…
Prompt Injection in RAG Systems 2026 — How Attackers Poison AI Knowledge Bases
The standard prompt injection defences I review — input validation, output filtering, jailbreak detection — all look at the user's message. RAG attacks walk right past them. The attacker never sends the injection through the user input channel at all. They upload a PDF to the shared knowledge base. They submit a support ticket whose content gets indexed. They edit a public wiki page that the enterprise RAG system crawls weekly. Three weeks later, when a legitimate user asks a…
Friday, May 1, 2026
LLM02 Sensitive Information Disclosure — How LLMs Leak PII, Credentials & System Data | AI LLM Hacking Course Day 6
🤖 AI/LLM HACKING COURSE FREE Part of the AI/LLM Hacking Course — 90 Days Day 6 of 90 · 6.6% complete ⚠️ Authorised Targets Only: Testing for sensitive information disclosure in LLM applications must only be performed against systems you have explicit written authorisation to test. If you discover real credentials, PII, or sensitive data during authorised testing, document it without accessing or using the disclosed information beyond what is necessary to confirm the finding. SecurityElites.com accepts no liability for…
AI Password Cracking 2026 — How Machine Learning Breaks Credentials Faster
The 2023 Home Security Heroes study ran PassGAN against a database of 15.6 million passwords. The results: 51% cracked in under a minute. 65% cracked in under an hour. 81% cracked within a month. PassGAN isn't a traditional dictionary attack — it's a generative adversarial network trained on real leaked passwords that generates novel guesses matching the statistical distribution of how humans actually choose passwords. Those numbers don't mean 81% of all passwords are crackable. They mean 81% of the…
Metasploit + Metasploitable First Module 2026 — vsftpd Backdoor to Root Shell | Hacking Lab 34
🧪 METASPLOITABLE LAB SERIESFREE Part of the Metasploitable Lab Series Lab 4 of 10 · 40% complete ⚠️ Authorised Lab Only. This lab exploits a real vulnerability against an intentionally vulnerable target. Run only on your isolated Metasploitable VM on a host-only network. Never run Metasploit modules against any system without explicit written authorisation. Five commands. That's all it takes. From a blank msfconsole to a root shell on Metasploitable in under 60 seconds using the vsftpd 2.3.4 backdoor. I'm…
Shadow AI Security Risks 2026 — The Unsanctioned AI Epidemic in Enterprise
The legal team had been using ChatGPT for six months before the security team found out. They'd discovered it was dramatically faster for contract summarisation — what took a paralegal four hours took the AI four minutes. They'd been pasting contracts in: client names, deal terms, confidential provisions, everything. The personal free-tier accounts they were using had conversation history enabled, data had been submitted to OpenAI's servers, and they had no idea whether any of it had been used for…
Metasploitable Service Enumeration Lab 2026 — Full Attack Surface Mapping | Hacking Lab 33
🧪 METASPLOITABLE LAB SERIESFREE Part of the Metasploitable Lab Series Lab 3 of 10 · 30% complete ⚠️ Isolated Lab Environment Only. Metasploitable 2 is intentionally vulnerable. Run it only on a host-only network completely isolated from the internet. Every service on this machine is exploitable. Lab 2 gave me 23 open ports. That's a list, not an attack plan. Service enumeration turns the port list into an attack priority matrix — I know which services are running vulnerable versions,…
How to Reverse a Real Android APK in 15 Minutes — Complete Beginner Guide 2026
Every Android APK is a ZIP file containing Java bytecode, resources, and a manifest. Unzip it, decompile it, and you have the developer's source code in a readable form. The hardcoded API key, the debug endpoint, the credentials baked in for "development only" — they're all there. I've found production AWS credentials, Stripe secret keys, and internal admin panel URLs in publicly available apps this way. Here's the exact workflow that takes any APK from download to decompiled source in…
Indirect Prompt Injection 2026 — Web-Delivered Attacks That Hijack AI Without User Input | AI LLM Hacking Course Day 5
🤖 AI/LLM HACKING COURSE FREE Part of the AI/LLM Hacking Course — 90 Days Day 5 of 90 · 5.5% complete ⚠️ Authorised Targets Only: Indirect prompt injection testing — including document injection, web page injection, and RAG poisoning — must only be performed against systems you have explicit written authorisation to test. The techniques here are for authorised bug bounty programmes with AI scope and sanctioned red team engagements only. SecurityElites.com accepts no liability for misuse. The scariest finding…
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