Research
Original analysis, technical findings, and emerging risk studies
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Papers and deep dives
Technical deep diveAug 2026
Broken object level authorization: from invoice IDs to AI agents
What 200 disclosed HackerOne reports say about the half of BOLA almost nobody tests. Six families, the request trace that breaks each one, and the agent surfaces where they are reappearing.
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Research paper25 May 2026
Broken object level authorization in the wild: an empirical taxonomy from 100+ bug bounty disclosures
Bandana Kaur
arXiv:2605.25865v1 [cs.CR]
Submitted 25 May 2026
Of 107 classified reports, 84 were confirmed in scope. Action-Level Object BOLA accounts for 41.7% of them, alongside Direct Object Reference as one of the two dominant families. Roughly 21.5% of tagged reports fall out of scope entirely.
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Field research
ArticleOct 2026 · 9 min
What Does Your MCP Attack Surface Look Like From the Outside?
ArticleSep 2026
It's not a vulnerability until the money moves
IncidentSep 2026 · 5 min
ZOOMSDAY: What Happens When Exploits Outrun Patches?
Case studySep 2026 · 9 min
Hijacking Google ADK Using Malicious A2A Peers
ArticleSep 2026 · 9 min
Observable ≠ Exploitable: The Problem With OAuth Security Measurements
Case studySep 2026 · 9 min
Trust Me, Bro: Forging Security Labels in Microsoft's FIDES Middleware
Attack chainAug 2026 · 8 min
Catfishing the Allowlist: Introducing MCP Security's Argument Injection Blind Spot
ArticleAug 2026 · 8 min
Mass Assignment: The Silent Killer of Application Security
ArticleJul 2026 · 14 min
The Seven Wonders of OAuth Exploitation
ArticleJul 2026 · 10 min
The Proxy Problem: Applying Goodhart's Law to AI-Generated Vulnerability Reports
ArticleJun 2026 · 7 min
All That Glitters Isn't Prompt Injection: Rethinking The Meta Instagram Takeover
Attack chainJun 2026 · 10 min
Beyond the $175K Bankrbot Hack: Encoding Attacks Across Layers of the Agentic AI Stack
ArticleMay 2026 · 8 min
What 100+ BOLA Reports Taught Us About Where Object-Level Authorization Actually Fails
Attack chainMay 2026 · 7 min
Prompt In, Shell Out: Exploiting GitHub AI Toolchains
Case studyApr 2026 · 8 min