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    <lastBuildDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</lastBuildDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bomb Threats Without Bombs: BackBox AI's OSINT Investigation into Europe's Hoax Waves]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[From 19 October to 12 November 2026, hoax bomb threats sent by email under at least six different names hit flights, newsrooms and thousands of schools across Europe. With the Threat Hunter profile of BackBox AI we reconstructed the waves, compared the messages and weighed who could be behind them, checked every source before publishing, and built a dashboard that will follow the investigation.]]></description>
      <link>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/osint-bomb-threats-europe-threat-hunter.html</link>
      <guid>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/osint-bomb-threats-europe-threat-hunter.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Threat Intelligence]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Cold Chain Under Attack: BackBox AI's OSINT Investigation into Refrigeration Sabotage]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In three weeks, attacks on the refrigeration systems of supermarkets and food businesses went from scattered incidents to two nights of sabotage across Europe. With the Threat Hunter profile of BackBox AI we reconstructed the incidents, techniques, actors and links from open sources, checked every source before publishing, and built a dashboard that will follow the investigation as it continues.]]></description>
      <link>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/osint-cold-chain-sabotage-threat-hunter.html</link>
      <guid>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/osint-cold-chain-sabotage-threat-hunter.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Threat Intelligence]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[OSINT on a Developing Crisis: How BackBox AI Followed Europe's October Unrest]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[We used the Threat Hunter profile of BackBox AI to follow the October 2026 protest wave in France and Italy from open sources, from the first reconstruction of events to the second day of mobilization. This is how the investigation was run, what it established, where open sources stop, and the dashboard that publishes its results.]]></description>
      <link>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/osint-european-unrest-threat-hunter.html</link>
      <guid>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/osint-european-unrest-threat-hunter.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Threat Intelligence]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Breaking Chrome 152: A Complete V8 Sandbox Escape and Renderer RCE]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[BackBox AI built a complete exploit chain against the v8CTF Chrome 152 target: an address leak, arbitrary read and write inside the V8 sandbox, a parser overflow that writes outside it, and a ROP chain that opens and reads a file on disk. Here is how each stage works, and what it says about patch lag.]]></description>
      <link>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/v8ctf-chrome-152-v8-sandbox-escape-renderer-rce.html</link>
      <guid>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/v8ctf-chrome-152-v8-sandbox-escape-renderer-rce.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Technical Writeup]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Hack The Box Season 11: What Thirteen Machines Taught Us About Autonomous Agents]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[We ran BackBox AI through the whole of Hack The Box Season 11, thirteen machines from Easy to Insane, and closed the season with every flag. The score is the least interesting part: what matters is how far an agent gets on its own, and where a person still has to step in.]]></description>
      <link>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/htb-season-11-autonomous-agents.html</link>
      <guid>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/htb-season-11-autonomous-agents.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[AI Security]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Security Advisory: Stored XSS in nopCommerce via an SVG animate Handler That Slips Past the HtmlFormatter Blocklist]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[During a client-commissioned penetration test, BackBox AI pivoted from gray-box to white-box, fingerprinted the exact nopCommerce version, pulled the matching source, and found a stored XSS: an SVG animate onbegin handler that slips past the platform's HtmlFormatter blocklist and a fronting web application firewall. The sanitizer root cause is unfixed through the latest release (4.90.6).]]></description>
      <link>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/nopcommerce-stored-xss-svg-animate-htmlformatter-bypass.html</link>
      <guid>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/nopcommerce-stored-xss-svg-animate-htmlformatter-bypass.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Security Advisory]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The AI Harness: Why Agentic Cybersecurity Is Won by the System, Not the Model]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The real breakthrough in AI-powered security is not a proprietary model. It is the harness: the tools, context, orchestration, interfaces and guardrails that let the best available models operate safely in the real world.]]></description>
      <link>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/ai-harness-agentic-cybersecurity.html</link>
      <guid>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/ai-harness-agentic-cybersecurity.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[AI Security]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Security Advisory: From Local User to Root, Chaining IPC Misconfigurations into a Full Privilege Escalation in NetBird]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[BackBox Labs analyzed the NetBird client daemon on Linux and chained several individually moderate weaknesses in its local gRPC interface into a full root privilege escalation affecting versions up to and including 0.75.0, with no memory corruption, kernel bugs, or race conditions involved.]]></description>
      <link>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/netbird-ipc-local-privilege-escalation.html</link>
      <guid>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/netbird-ipc-local-privilege-escalation.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Security Advisory]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[AI Malware Analysis: Reasoning Through the Glitch SPY Android RAT]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[We pointed BackBox AI at a live Android RAT and asked for a full analysis. It unpacked a dropper, decoded an XOR-obfuscated C2 URL straight from smali bytecode, confirmed that the C2 infrastructure was still responding by speaking the malware's own protocol, and attributed the operation. This is what evidence-driven analytical reasoning looks like when it reaches past red teaming.]]></description>
      <link>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/ai-malware-analysis-glitch-spy-android-rat.html</link>
      <guid>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/ai-malware-analysis-glitch-spy-android-rat.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Technical Writeup]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Technological Sovereignty in the Age of AI: Why Independence Became a Strategic Question]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In the age of artificial intelligence, whoever controls models, data and infrastructure controls far more than technology. Why technological sovereignty has become a strategic question, and the contribution of a project born in Italy.]]></description>
      <link>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/technological-sovereignty-ai-era.html</link>
      <guid>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/technological-sovereignty-ai-era.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Vision]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Security Advisory: When Packaging Becomes the Vulnerability, Local Privilege Escalation via Bettercap's systemd Service]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[BackBox AI found a local root escalation on Linux distributions that package Bettercap with a systemd service. The flaw is not in Bettercap's code but in the packaging: the service runs its REST API as root with authentication disabled. The unit was removed upstream.]]></description>
      <link>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/bettercap-service-packaging-local-privilege-escalation.html</link>
      <guid>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/bettercap-service-packaging-local-privilege-escalation.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Security Advisory]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Security Advisory: CSMAN Decompression Bomb in Binwalk Leads to Memory-Exhaustion DoS]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[BackBox AI found that a small crafted file could exhaust available memory during an ordinary Binwalk scan, with no extraction flag required. The Binwalk maintainer confirmed the issue and fixed it by capping decompression at 100 MB.]]></description>
      <link>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/binwalk-csman-decompression-bomb-dos.html</link>
      <guid>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/binwalk-csman-decompression-bomb-dos.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Security Advisory]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Security Advisory: Header Trust Issues in SearXNG (Open Redirect, Cache Poisoning, Rate-Limiter Bypass)]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[BackBox AI surfaced two header-trust weaknesses in SearXNG: a Host header injection leading to open redirect and cache poisoning, and an X-Forwarded-For rate-limiter bypass. Disclosed responsibly, both come down to trusting client-controlled HTTP headers.]]></description>
      <link>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/searxng-header-trust-open-redirect-rate-limiter-bypass.html</link>
      <guid>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/searxng-header-trust-open-redirect-rate-limiter-bypass.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Security Advisory]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Smarter, Not Bigger: How We Built BackBox AI, and How We Partner with Open Source]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Why BackBox AI bets on architecture over model size, and how we partner, pro bono, with a selected group of open source projects.]]></description>
      <link>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/smarter-not-bigger-backbox-ai-open-source-partnership.html</link>
      <guid>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/smarter-not-bigger-backbox-ai-open-source-partnership.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[AI Security]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Photoview Benchmark: BackBox AI vs Aikido and XBOW, Severity Quality Over Finding Count]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A data-driven comparison of BackBox AI against Aikido Security and XBOW on the Photoview application, using Doyensec's independent severity review as a common yardstick. The focus is signal over noise: matching the serious-vulnerability coverage of a higher-volume competitor with far fewer low-value findings.]]></description>
      <link>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/photoview-backbox-vs-aikido-xbow-benchmark.html</link>
      <guid>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/photoview-backbox-vs-aikido-xbow-benchmark.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Technical Writeup]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[MedPortal Benchmark: BackBox AI vs Neo Vulnerability and False Positive Analysis]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Comparative security benchmark between BackBox AI and Neo (ProjectDiscovery) on the MedPortal application, focusing on vulnerability coverage, false positive validation, and attack chain analysis]]></description>
      <link>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/medportal-backbox-vs-neo-pd-benchmark.html</link>
      <guid>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/medportal-backbox-vs-neo-pd-benchmark.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Technical Writeup]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Multimodal AI Visual Reasoning: PCB Analysis in HTB Critical Flight]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[How BackBox AI leveraged multimodal visual capabilities to analyze PCB production files and autonomously identify hidden anomalies in the Hack The Box Critical Flight scenario]]></description>
      <link>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/ai-visual-reasoning-pcb-critical-flight-htb.html</link>
      <guid>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/ai-visual-reasoning-pcb-critical-flight-htb.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Technical Writeup]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Autonomous AI Exploitation: Solving HTB Snapped with a Full CVE Chain]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[How BackBox AI autonomously exploited a hard Hack The Box machine by chaining real-world CVEs without human intervention]]></description>
      <link>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/ai-autonomous-exploitation-htb-snapped-cve-chain.html</link>
      <guid>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/ai-autonomous-exploitation-htb-snapped-cve-chain.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Technical Writeup]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[BackBox AI vs XBOW Benchmark: Compromising a SOAP Service with XXE and Default Credentials]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A detailed analysis of how BackBox AI autonomously compromised a vulnerable SOAP service by exploiting XXE and default credentials in the XBOW Validation Benchmark.]]></description>
      <link>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/backbox-ai-xbow-nice-soap-xxe-default-credentials.html</link>
      <guid>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/backbox-ai-xbow-nice-soap-xxe-default-credentials.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Technical Writeup]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Threat Led Penetration Testing: Enhancing Cyber Resilience]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[How BackBox Labs applies an adversary-driven Threat Led Penetration Testing (TLPT) methodology that combines threat intelligence, AI-powered attack surface discovery, and human expertise to measure real operational resilience.]]></description>
      <link>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/threat-led-penetration-testing-tlpt.html</link>
      <guid>https://backbox.dev/en/blog/threat-led-penetration-testing-tlpt.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Penetration Testing]]></category>
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