10 Hacker Summer Camp Standouts at Black Hat and DEF CON

This post summarizes Huntress's highlights from Hacker Summer Camp 2026, covering research and community activities across Black Hat and DEF CON: CloudShell reverse-engineering and the CloudBasher toolkit revealing IAM weaknesses; a trial-abuse case that exposed attacker tooling; AI-related risks including indirect prompt injection and Model Context Protocol (MCP) attack paths; references to major education-sector breaches (PowerSchool and a claimed Canvas/Instructure leak); and community events like villages, SOC Showdown, and hands-on labs.