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PortSwigger's James Kettle builds AI tool 'HTTP Terminator' that finds new smuggling attacks

At Black Hat USA 2026, PortSwigger research director James Kettle unveiled an open source AI-driven tool called HTTP Terminator, designed to test whether AI could invent original hacking techniques rather than just find known bugs. The tool autonomously produced new HTTP desync, or request smuggling, attacks and used them to breach real enterprise sites, including several belonging to financial services firms.

darkreading.com · 2026-08-26

PicoMQ launches durable message streaming built directly on object storage

PicoMQ is a new messaging system that delivers durable, HTTP-accessible streams while storing data on object storage rather than dedicated disks or brokers. It lets developers create a separate stream for each use case instead of consolidating records into shared topics, with each stream independently addressable and able to scale from idle to high throughput.

picomq.com · 2026-08-24