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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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Exploits & Zero-Days
Security 101: Zero-Day Vulnerabilities and Exploits

A zero-day attack exploits an unpatched vulnerability. Until a patch becomes available, it is often a race between threat actors trying to exploit the flaw and vendors or developers rolling out a patch to fix it.

October 2nd, 2019 9 min read TrendAI™ Research
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Cyber crime
The Risks of Open Banking: Are Banks and their Customers Ready for PSD2?

Our research highlights the current and new risks that the financial industry will have to defend against, and predict how cybercriminals will abuse and attack Open Banking.

September 17th, 2019 3 min read TrendAI™ Research
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Cyber crime
Texas Municipalities Hit by REvil/Sodinokibi Paid No Ransom, Over Half Resume Operations

Cybercriminals who held to ransom the files of 22 Texas local government units for a combined ransom amount of US$2.5 million did not get a single cent, according to Texas state officials.

September 10th, 2019 3 min read TrendAI™ Research
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IoT & smart devicesCybercriminal underground
Uncovering IoT Threats in the Cybercrime Underground

Understanding current and future threats to the internet of things (IoT) can help shape how we secure this technology that is increasingly becoming integral to today's world. What insights can be reaped from the cybercrime underground?

September 10th, 2019 3 min read Stephen Hilt, Vladimir Kropotov, Fernando Mercês, Mayra Rosario…
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Cyber crimeDeepfakes
Unusual CEO Fraud via Deepfake Audio Steals US$243,000 From UK Company

An unusual case of CEO fraud used a deepfake audio, an artificial intelligence (AI)-generated audio, and was reported to have conned US$243,000 from a U.K.-based energy company.

September 5th, 2019 3 min read TrendAI™ Research
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Cyber crimePhishing & BEC
BEC Scam Costing Almost US$11 Million Leads to FBI Arrest of Nigerian Businessman

The CEO of the Invictus Group of Companies, Obinwanne Okeke, has reportedly been arrested by the FBI after he was accused of conspiracy to commit computer and wire fraud.

August 20th, 2019 4 min read TrendAI™ Research
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Phishing & BEC
The Rising Tide of Credential Phishing: 2.4 Million Attacks Blocked by Trend Micro Cloud App Security in 2019 1H

Credential phishing continues to be a bane for organizations. In the first half of 2019, the Trend Micro™️ Cloud App Security™️ solution caught 2.4 million attacks of this type — a 59% increase from 1.5 million in the second half of 2018.

August 14th, 2019 4 min read TrendAI™ Research
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Ransomware & extortion
Report: Huge Increase in Ransomware Attacks on Businesses

According to a new report, ransomware attacks against businesses increased by 363% percent year-over-year. There has also been a greater number of ransomware attacks targeting different public sectors and local governments since the start of 2019.

August 12th, 2019 3 min read TrendAI™ Research
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Cyber crime
Hunting Threats on Twitter: How Social Media can be Used to Gather Actionable Threat Intelligence

Social media is a content-rich platform many enterprises use, but how can InfoSec professionals and security teams use it to gather threat intelligence that they can use to protect their organizations?

July 30th, 2019 17 min read Vladimir Kropotov, Fyodor Yarochkin, Ryan Flores, Jon Oliver
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IoT & smart devicesExploits & Zero-Days
Inside the Smart Home: IoT Device Threats and Attack Scenarios

The different threat scenarios that can happen to a smart home illustrate that compromised IoT devices can affect not just users' comfort and convenience but also their safety.

July 30th, 2019 7 min read Ziv Chang
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