Research Worth Reading - Week 6, 2026

Published: 08 Feb 2026

Busy week! AI, AI, AI and the death of Flash!

🤖 Semgrep's Agent Skills

Semgrep released a set of agent skills worth looking into: Semgrep's Agent Skills. 1

🤿 Shaking the MCP Tree: A Security Deep Dive

You may think "just another MCP bug" but this post is actually worth reading: Shaking the MCP Tree: A Security Deep Dive. 0

🤖 Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-discovered 0-days

This section resumes it: "Opus 4.6 is notably better at finding high-severity vulnerabilities than previous models": Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-discovered 0-days. 0

♦️ Co -RedTeam: Orchestrated Security Discovery and Exploitation with LLM Agents

If you are working on a "LLM based hacker", you are going to want to read this: Co -RedTeam: Orchestrated Security Discovery and Exploitation with LLM Agents. 0

🚨 An introduction to automated LLM red teaming

Promptfoo is a neat tool to add to your red teaming arsenal: An introduction to automated LLM red teaming. 0

🛠️ Scalable research tooling for agent systems

A great post on how to scale tooling for agent: Scalable research tooling for agent systems. 0

🦝 Discovering Negative-Days with LLM Workflows

That's something I toyed with in 2012 (Monitoring repositories for Fun and Profit - Ruxcon 2012), I used basic rules at the time. Obviously, having LLMs is a game changer for this kind of workload: Discovering Negative-Days with LLM Workflows. 0

⚡️ What Really Killed Flash Player: A Six-Year Campaign of Deliberate Platform Work

The story of the death of Adobe Flash, a must-read for AppSec practitioners. What Really Killed Flash Player: A Six-Year Campaign of Deliberate Platform Work. 0

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