{
  "id": 261895,
  "title": "AI-Assisted HTTP Terminator Finds Novel HTTP Desync Techniques and Apache Zero-Day",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/07/ai-assisted-http-terminator-finds-novel-http-desync-techniques-and",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-07T10:09:54.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/ai-assisted-http-terminator-finds-novel.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "PortSwigger says HTTP Terminator, an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted research system built by James Kettle, generated and proved new HTTP desynchronization techniques after exploring 30,000 candidate attack vectors. PortSwigger said a separate human-guided discovery cascade also exposed a zero-day in Apache Traffic Server. Kettle said HTTP Terminator tested 30,000 websites where scanning",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}