Theme Brief

When AI Acts: Hacking the Age of Agentic Systems

AI security has been a recurring theme at HITCON. As language models evolve from linguistic comprehension to agentic action, the security challenges of AI have grown substantially.

LLMs are inherently susceptible to adversarial attacks; vulnerabilities such as jailbreaking, prompt injection, and model alignment represent challenges that are theoretically difficult to eliminate. As Agentic AI bridges diverse systems, it not only inherits vulnerabilities from the underlying infrastructure but propagates them across all integrated environments, forming a complex and interdependent supply chain that significantly expands the attack surface.

Beyond this, the foundation model, training procedures, training datasets, and even Tool Use all emerge as new attack vectors, yet security continues to be deferred to the final stages of the development lifecycle, repeating a well-worn mistake from IT history.

How to embed Security-by-Design into AI system development in this new era has become the next critical challenge for the information security community.

About HITCON

There is no black nor white in the realm of technology. Hackers, as we see them, encapsulate top-notch skills and challenge-seeking spirits. Unlike commercial conferences, HITCON provides a stage for hackers to share the latest and advanced security technology and have discussions with everyone. We take great care of our sessions to make sure that everything published in HITCON is commercial-free research, latest trends, or advanced hacker skills. We also hope that every session is interesting to our attendees.

Hacks in Taiwan Conference (HITCON), a technology-orientated cybersecurity conference annually held in Taiwan, is dedicated to bringing the latest information and the most in-depth know-hows of cybersecurity technologies and practices to the community. Over the years, we have invited worldwide speakers and participants to these great events. Also, we facilitated the communities to exchange technical researches, bleeding-edge hacking technologies, and a wide range of corporate security issues.

Information

Name: HITCON (Hacks In Taiwan Conference) 2026

Organizer: Association of Hackers in Taiwan (HIT), CHROOT, Institute of Information Science (IIS), Academia Sinica

Venue: Humanities & Social Science Building, Academia Sinica Taiwan (128 Academia Rd. Sec. 2, Nangang District, Taipei City).

Date: August 21th, 2026 (Fri.) – August 22th, 2026 (Sat.)

Tickets

Official website: https://hitcon.org/2026/en-US/

Register website: https://hitcon.kktix.cc/events/hitcon-2026

Sale period: Until August 22th, 2026 (Sat.)