#Black Hat 2025
6 stories taggedBlack Hat 2025.
The Industrial Timing Protocol That Could Let Hackers Stop a Robotic Arm Mid-Grip
Researchers found that a family of protocols keeping factory machines in sync has a fundamental weakness. Exploiting it, they could start and stop robots, mess with factory clocks, and touch every device on the network.
Fifteen Flaws in TP-Link's Auto-Setup System Could Hand Hackers Control of an Entire Business Network
Security firm Forescout found serious weaknesses in the technology TP-Link uses to automatically configure routers, switches, and cameras. Some flaws can be chained together to let an outsider quietly seize control of every device on a network.
AI Security Bots Are Great at Hacking. Terrible at Defence. Researchers Are Trying to Fix That.
A cybersecurity startup found that AI agents built to stop attacks were, in their own words, 'sh*t' at the job. Here is why that gap exists, and what they are doing about it.
Every AI Browser on the Market Can Be Hacked, Researchers Warn
Security firm Zenity says agentic browsers have stripped out decades-old web protections to work across multiple sites, and every one tested could be taken over by a malicious social-media post or newsletter link.
Microsoft's New Passkey System Has Flaws That Let Old Hacking Tricks Work Again
A security researcher found three near-exploitable bugs in Windows 11 and Microsoft's cloud login service, just as the company prepares to make passkeys the default for hundreds of millions of users.
AI Security Scanners Are Drowning Teams in False Alarms, and the Fix Isn't More AI
More than 60% of flagged security flaws are noise. A researcher testing a dozen tools says AI models make the problem worse, not better, because they lack the context to tell a real threat from a ghost.