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PIYUSH KUMAWAT · July 16, 2026

AI Pentest Tools in 2026: What Actually Works (T3MP3ST, PentestGPT, Caido and More)

Half the bug bounty writeups on my feed this week were not about a new vulnerability class – they were about a…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · July 15, 2026

LLM Red Teaming in 2026: A Practical garak + PyRIT Workflow

You shipped an LLM feature. A support chatbot, a “summarize this document” button, an agent that can call tools. Now the obvious…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · July 14, 2026

Indirect Prompt Injection in 2026: Hacking AI Through the Content It Reads

Most people picture prompt injection as someone typing “ignore your instructions” into a chatbot. That is the direct kind, and it is…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · July 13, 2026

Hacking GraphQL APIs in 2026: Introspection, BOLA, and Batching Attacks

GraphQL is a gift to attackers. One endpoint, usually /graphql, that speaks a typed, self-describing language and will happily tell you every…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · July 12, 2026

Actively Exploited CVEs in June 2026: A Practical Patch-Now Briefing (SimpleHelp, Citrix, ColdFusion, Defender)

June 2026 was a brutal month for anyone who runs internet-facing infrastructure. A run of critical, actively-exploited vulnerabilities landed one after another,…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · July 10, 2026

IDOR Hunting in 2026: A Practical Playbook for Finding Broken Access Control

IDOR is the bug that pays rent for a lot of bug bounty hunters, and it is still the one developers ship…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · July 8, 2026

MCP Server Security (2026): A Practical Pentester’s Testing Playbook

If you are running Cursor, Claude Desktop, Windsurf, or a home-grown agent stack in 2026, you almost certainly have MCP servers in…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · July 7, 2026

From Prompts to AI Security Loops: A Practical Playbook

Most teams are still treating AI like a better prompt box. "Review this code for vulnerabilities." "Write a Sigma rule for this…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · July 6, 2026

Bug Bounty Recon Workflow (2026): A Practical, Copy-Paste Playbook

A practical bug bounty recon workflow for 2026 - the exact commands for subdomains, live hosts, URLs, JS analysis and content discovery,…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · July 1, 2026

AI Bug Bounty in 2026: How Hunters Use Claude Code and Automation to Find Bugs Faster

AI bug bounty in 2026: how hunters use Claude Code, Burp MCP and automation to find bugs faster, with honest accuracy numbers…