Black Hat 2026: Check Point Research Takes the Stage

Black Hat USA 2026 gave Check Point Research four chances to show the room something it hadn’t seen before. Across two days, our researchers pulled apart a decade-old Windows driver, a malware format most tools can’t touch, the plumbing underneath today’s AI agent frameworks, and the sandbox meant to contain them, and found the same pattern waiting in each: attackers moving into the layers we trust by default. Here’s a look at what they presented.