Hacking Tools 2026
50 essential offensive and defensive tools — installation, core usage, performance optimisation, pitfalls and modern alternatives.
PyRIT: Microsoft’s Python Risk Identification Tool for Generative AI
PyRIT gives red-teamers a programmable framework — orchestrators, prompt converters, and scorers — to automate generative-AI attacks at scale.
AI SecurityMindgard and the Rise of AI-Native Offensive Security Platforms
A new category arrived in 2026: AI-native offensive security platforms that test models, agents, and multimodal apps continuously, inside the SDLC.
AI SecurityGarak: NVIDIA’s LLM Vulnerability Scanner — A Practitioner’s Guide
Garak probes LLMs for prompt injection, jailbreaks, toxicity, and data leakage with hundreds of built-in attack probes. A hands-on primer.
AI SecurityPromptfoo for Red Teamers: Automated GenAI Attack Testing in Your Pipeline
Promptfoo turns LLM red-teaming into repeatable, CI-friendly test suites — prompt injection, data leaks, and jailbreaks on every build.
AI SecurityAI Red Teaming in Production: garak, PyRIT, and the OWASP LLM Top 10
A programmatic AI red-team capability for production LLM deployments. garak probes, PyRIT campaigns, promptfoo CI integration, and OWASP LLM v3 in operational…
Hacking Tools 2026EDR Bypass Techniques in 2026: How Modern Threats Evade Endpoint Defenses
Technical survey of EDR bypass — ETW patching, AMSI bypass, direct/indirect syscalls, BYOVD, LOLBins. For defenders tuning detections and red teamers learning…
AI SecurityScenario Brief: MCP SDK Authentication Bypass — Tradecraft and Mitigation
Tabletop-ready scenario: a hypothetical auth-bypass in the Model Context Protocol reference SDK. What an MCP server compromise looks like and how to…
AcademySliver C2 Operator Guide — Implants, Transports, OPSEC, and the Detection Patterns Blue Teams Should Hunt
Sliver is the open-source post-Cobalt-Strike C2 framework — accessible to Indian red teams without licensing barriers, and the most-abused C2 after CS…
AcademyBurp Suite Pro 2026 — Five Production Bambdas and Three Custom BChecks (Paste-Ready)
Burp Bambdas (per-request JavaScript) and BChecks (YAML scanner checks) are the highest-leverage features in Burp Pro 2026. Five paste-ready Bambdas (sensitive data,…
AcademyCaido for Web Pentest — A Modern Alternative to Burp Suite Pro (Hands-On Walkthrough)
Caido is the first credible challenger to Burp Suite Pro — Rust-built, web UI, multi-tester collaboration. Architecture comparison, workflow-by-workflow analysis of where…