Black Hat USA Announces Over 100 Briefings for its 29th Anniversary Event in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Black Hat, the cybersecurity industry’s most established and in-depth security event series, today announced the release of its content lineup for Black Hat USA 2026, taking place August 1 to August 6 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. The programming will feature over 100 peer-reviewed Briefings, over 100 Trainings, a full day of Summits, over 120 Sponsored Sessions, over 80 Arsenal tool demos, plus new specialized forums and events including the Cyber War Forum, Black Hat(HER), and more.

The research presented will address the emerging security challenges that organizations can expect to face as technology evolves. Black Hat's peer-review process helps to ensure attendees receive advance intelligence on threats before they become widespread.

Key themes in this year's programming:

• AI & Autonomous Threats
  • Featuring insights from Chris Inglis, former U.S. National Cyber Director, and Fred Heiding, postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Kennedy School.
• Cyber Conflict & Live Operations
  • Featuring insights from Bob Lord, consultant at Lord Consulting, and Steve Tran, CISO at Iyuno.
• Systems Under Stress
  • Featuring insights from HD Moore, founder at runZero.
• Identity, Trust, & Control
  • Featuring insights from Christopher Domas, security researcher.

Notable Briefings (August 5-6):

• C and Its Consequences: The Source Is Just a Suggestion will reveal how defensive coding patterns can trick modern compilers into introducing Time-Of-Check to Time-Of-Use (TOCTOU) vulnerabilities during optimization.
• GPUBreach: Privilege Escalation Attacks on GPUs Using Rowhammer will demonstrate the first targeted Rowhammer attacks on NVIDIA GPUs, enabling privilege escalation, cross-process memory access, and full system compromise through GPU-to-kernel exploitation.
• Beyond Normalization: The Expanding Unicode Attack Surface will expose how attackers weaponize illegal UTF-8 sequences and exploit surrogate-to-replacement conversions to bypass Web Application Firewalls (WAFs), achieve Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and Remote Code Execution (RCE), and jailbreak LLMs.

Trainings highlights (August 1–4):

• Agentic AI-aided Kubernetes Attack and Defense
• Mastering LLM Integration Security
• Crash Course on AI Engineering for Security Team

Featured Black Hat Arsenal presentations (August 5–6):

• Obscurize: Malware for Defense and Counter Offense
• Practical Ransomware Detection on macOS (via Math, not AI)
• ICSForge™: OT/ICS Security Coverage Validation Platform

Black Hat Arsenal brings together researchers to demonstrate their open-source tools and products while giving practitioners hands-on access to specialized tools and hard-to-access targets. This year’s event will feature 89 in-person tool demos and 20 lab sessions, spanning malware, digital forensics, threat hunting and incident response, and more.

Registration:

Complete program details and registration are available at blackhat.com/us-26/.

New Forums and Events:

• Cyber War Forum: https://blackhat.com/html/cyber-war-connect/
• Black Hat(HER): https://blackhat.com/html/her/

Top Sponsors and Partners of Black Hat USA 2026 include:

• Titanium Sponsors: Cisco, Qualys, ReliaQuest, Safe Security, SentinelOne, ServiceNow, and ThreatLocker.
• Diamond Sponsors: 7AI, Cymulate, Exaforce, Fortra, KnowBe4, MIND, Oak, Primary, Prophet AI, Sophos, Tenable, TrendAI, and Vectra.
• Apex Partners: ThreatLocker.
• Strategic Partners: Cisco, Cyera, Google, ManageEngine, Qualys, ReliaQuest, SentinelOne, ServiceNow, TrendAI, and Wiz.
• Global Partners: Broadcom, Censys, Concentric AI, Corellium, Fortra, HackerOne, Semgrep, Tines, Tracebit, VulnCheck, wolfSSL, XBOW, and Zenity.

About Black Hat

Black Hat is the cybersecurity industry’s most established and in-depth security event series. Founded in 1997, these annual, multi-day events provide attendees with the latest in cybersecurity research, development, and trends. Driven by the needs of the community, Black Hat events showcase content directly from the community through Briefings presentations, Trainings courses, Summits, and more. As the event series where all career levels and academic disciplines convene to collaborate, network, and discuss the cybersecurity topics that matter most to them, attendees can find Black Hat events in the United States, Canada, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Asia. For more information, please visit blackhat.com.