Black Hat USA 2026 Signals Agent Exploitation Has Become Its Own Infrastructure Discipline

Black Hat USA 2026 highlights agent exploitation as a distinct infrastructure security discipline, presenting verified briefings targeting the core runtime frameworks, cloud platforms, compute clusters, and attack tooling for AI agents. Researchers reveal vulnerabilities in AI agent frameworks, cost-effective exploitation models, compromised cloud orchestration layers, and real-world compute cluster botnets, signalling a shift requiring infrastructure-grade security approaches.

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