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Critical Infrastructure Under Threat: How Frontier AI Changes the Risk Equation
AIOT & critical infrastructure

Critical Infrastructure Under Threat: How Frontier AI Changes the Risk Equation

The critical systems we can’t afford to lose are the same ones attackers are racing to target. With a new generation of AI-augmented cyber threats, what used to be weeks of warning can collapse into mere hours. What is the current state of the threat landscape for essential industries, and what can organizations do to fortify their defenses? Uncover this and more in our report.

16 سبتمبر 2026TrendAI™ Research
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Rethinking the External Attack Surface: Managing the Growing Risk of Open Cyber-Physical Data
IoT & smart devicesASM ASRM
Rethinking the External Attack Surface: Managing the Growing Risk of Open Cyber-Physical Data

China-aligned operational relay box (ORB) infrastructure is harvesting open sensor data at scale, and most defenders can't see it. Our report dives into how these ORBs can use open telemetry for data collection and other purposes.

10 سبتمبر 2026 6 min
Fyodor Yarochkin, Vladimir Kropotov, Robert McArdle
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HacktivismRansomware & extortion
Mapping the Criminal Economy Targeting Critical Infrastructure

TrendAI™ Research went inside the forums, marketplaces, and Telegram channels where access to factories, utilities, and energy firms is bought, sold, and weaponized. Combing through two years’ worth of data revealed an underground where financially motivated brokers and ransomware crews now operate alongside state-aligned hacktivists, sharing the same entry vectors, the same pirated training, and in some cases, the same personnel.

2 سبتمبر 2026 7 min
Mayra Rosario Fuentes, Stephen Hilt, Numaan Huq
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Security 101: Virtual Patching
Exploits & Zero-Days
Security 101: Virtual Patching

What happens to an unpatched or vulnerable application or organization’s IT infrastructure? Here's how virtual patching helps enterprises address vulnerability and patch management woes.

25 أغسطس 2026 5 min
TrendAI™ Research
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Cloud security
Security 101: Protecting Serverless and Container Applications with RASP (Runtime Application Self-Protection)

This article zeroes in on certain security considerations that developers need to know and the ways that they can build the best defense for container-based and serverless applications through runtime application self-protection (also known as RASP).

March 23rd, 2021 7 min read TrendAI™ Research
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Connected car
In Transit, Interconnected, at Risk: Cybersecurity Risks of Connected Cars

The use of connected cars continues to grow. While the vehicles’ link to technologies such as 5G and the cloud present opportunities for improving efficiency and safety, it can also attract risks from threat actors as well.

February 16th, 2021 4 min read Numaan Huq, Craig Gibson, Vladimir Kropotov, Rainer Vosseler
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Cyber crimeRansomware & extortion
The State of Ransomware: 2020’s Catch-22

Ransomware continues the trend of targeted attacks but with the added challenge of double extortion. Organizations need to be one step ahead of such coercive tactics to avoid potential disruptions, financial losses, and reputational damage.

February 3rd, 2021 17 min read Magno Logan, Erika Mendoza, Ryan Maglaque, Nikko Tamaña
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Cyber crimeCloud security
A Look at Linux: Threats, Risks, and Recommendations

This article aims to discuss the Linux threat landscape and examine how Linux has become an attractive target for attackers, as well as how it can be prone to a variety of threats and risks.

January 26th, 2021 14 min read Magno Logan, Pawan Kinger
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AISocial engineering
Exploiting AI: How Cybercriminals Misuse and Abuse AI and ML

We discuss the present state of the malicious uses and abuses of AI and ML and the plausible future scenarios in which cybercriminals might abuse these technologies for ill gain.

November 19th, 2020 TrendAI™ Research, United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3)
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Cybercriminal undergroundCloud security
Cybercriminal ‘Cloud of Logs’: The Emerging Underground Business of Selling Access to Stolen Data

We take a closer look at an emerging underground market that is driven by malicious actors who sell access to a gargantuan amount of stolen data, frequently advertised in the underground as “cloud of logs."

November 16th, 2020 22 min read Vladimir Kropotov, Fyodor Yarochkin
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Cyber crime
COVID-19 Used in Malicious Campaigns

Threat actors take advantage of the spread of COVID-19 for malicious campaigns. Goods and services related to the virus also appear in underground marketplaces and cybercriminal forums.

November 11th, 2020 23 min read TrendAI™ Research
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Ransomware & extortion
Ryuk 2020: Distributing Ransomware via TrickBot and BazarLoader

Starting this year, Ryuk began using another dropper called BazarLoader (also known as BazarBackdoor), which is primarily distributed via phishing emails that contain either malicious attachments or links to websites that host malware.

November 4th, 2020 4 min read TrendAI™ Research
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IoT & smart devices
A Ride on Taiwan’s Self-Driving Bus

We went for a ride on the self-driving bus now being tested in Taiwan. Here are our insights.

October 22nd, 2020 7 min read Philippe Lin
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Operation Earth Kitsune: Tracking SLUB’s Current Operations

A watering hole campaign we dubbed as Operation Earth Kitsune is spying on users’ systems through compromised websites. Using SLUB and two new malware variants, the attacks exploit vulnerabilities including those of Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.

October 19th, 2020 TrendAI™ Research
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