Numaan Huq
19 articles
-
ResearchPrescription for Risk: The Cybersecurity Hazards of GenAI in Healthcare
Generative AI now writes clinical notes, drafts patient replies, and decides claims, often faster than healthcare’s oversight can keep pace. TrendAI™ Research maps the resulting “custody gap” and the risk it creates, from the exam room to the back office, where AI-generated artifacts can enter patient records.
September 30th, 2026 6 minNumaan Huq
Read article -
ResearchMapping 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.
September 2nd, 2026 7 minMayra Rosario Fuentes, Stephen Hilt, Numaan Huq
Read article -
ResearchSecuring Sovereign AI: Practical Controls Across Physical, Software, and Model Supply Chains
Sovereign AI places responsibility for every layer of the security stack in the operator's hands, and this article examines the threats that accompany that shift alongside the practical controls that keep nationally owned AI systems trustworthy.
August 11th, 2026Numaan Huq, David Girard
Read article -
ResearchAn Invisible Attack Surface: Thousands of Industrial Control Systems Exposed Near Data Centers
TrendAI™ Research's investigation of ICS protocols near U.S. data centers uncovered thousands of vulnerable devices controlling critical cooling, power, and environmental infrastructure. These systems—designed for operational efficiency, not security—were accessible from the public internet.
August 8th, 2026 43 minStephen Hilt, Numaan Huq
Read article -
ResearchBuilding Sovereign AI: Technical Considerations for Foundation and Architecture
Governments around the world are committing billions to domestic AI development, but the race to create sovereign AI strategies has outpaced a clear understanding of what sovereignty actually requires. This research offers government and enterprise leaders a practical, layer-by-layer framework for determining how sovereign they need to be, and where it matters most.
July 20th, 2026Numaan Huq, David Girard
Read article -
ResearchThe Cybercriminal Underground: Mapping the Healthcare Data Economy
A look inside an industrialized economy where stolen healthcare data is bought, sold, and weaponized, from ransomware breaches to broker access and fake medical documents fueling an expanding criminal supply chain.
June 4th, 2026Stephen Hilt, Numaan Huq, Mayra Rosario Fuentes
Read article -
ResearchA Hidden Vulnerability in Healthcare: Exposed DICOM Servers and the Risk to Patient Data
Analysis from TrendAI™ Research found that thousands of DICOM medical imaging servers worldwide are exposed online without basic security measures, leaving sensitive patient data and healthcare operations vulnerable to cyberattacks.
May 4th, 2026Numaan Huq, Andre Alves
Read article -
ResearchFrom Holiday Snap to Custom Scam in 30 Minutes: How AI Turns Public Photos Into Targeted Attacks
AI now enables attackers to rapidly convert publicly shared personal images into scalable, highly targeted phishing intelligence, turning everyday online photos into a significant and often overlooked security risk for individuals and enterprises.
February 24th, 2026 12 minNumaan Huq, David Sancho
Read article -
ResearchFrom LinkedIn to Tailored Attack in 30 Minutes: How AI Accelerates Target Profiling for Cybercrime
The industrialization of AI-driven OSINT has transformed individual digital footprints into machine-readable intelligence at scale, enabling attackers to operationalize personalized reconnaissance at volume.
February 23rd, 2026 11 minNumaan Huq, David Sancho
Read article -
ResearchReimagining Fraud Operations: The Rise of AI-Powered Scam Assembly Lines
Trend™ Research replicated an AI-powered scam assembly line to reveal how AI is eradicating the barrier for entry to running scams, making fraud easier to run, harder to detect, and effortless to scale.
November 18th, 2025 18 minRoel Reyes, Numaan Huq, Salvatore Gariuolo
Read article -
ResearchAgentic Edge AI: Development Tools and Workflows
Trend™ Research inspected agentic edge AI systems and the development tools and workflows they leverage and uncovered an intricate labyrinth that demands robust protection from cyberthreats.
October 30th, 2025 11 minNumaan Huq, Roel Reyes
Read article -
ResearchAgentic Edge AI: Autonomous Intelligence on the Edge
Agentic edge AI offers enhanced advantages, but with this comes cybersecurity challenges. Learn more about agentic edge AI and its architecture, and equip your organization by examining related threats and mitigation strategies for these risks.
October 10th, 2025 18 minNumaan Huq, Roel Reyes
Read article -
ResearchDo Security Blogs Enable Vibe-Coded Cybercrime?
Security companies routinely publish detailed analyses of security incidents, making attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) widely known and visible. These reports often provide comprehensive insights into specific vulnerabilities that are or could be exploited, malware delivery mechanisms, and evasion techniques.
September 4th, 2025 5 minRyan Flores, Numaan Huq, Vladimir Kropotov, Robert McArdle…
Read article
-
ResearchMetaverse or Metaworse? How the Apple Vision Pro Stacks Up Against Predictions
In 2022, Trend Micro conducted extensive research to understand potential cyber threats to the metaverse amid significant global changes and a growing focus on AI technologies. The release of Apple's Apple Vision Pro headset a year later provided an opportunity to evaluate these predictions, highlighting both advancements and persistent challenges in areas such as data privacy, biometric security, and multi-vendor interoperability.
February 5th, 2025 6 minNumaan Huq, Roel Reyes
Read article -
ResearchNavigating the Threat Landscape for Cloud-Based GPUs
The increased adoption of technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), large language models (LLMs), and high-performance computing (HPC) underscores the growing need to prioritize the security of graphics processing units (GPUs).
May 23rd, 2024 3 minNumaan Huq, Philippe Lin, Roel Reyes, Charles Perine
Read article -
ResearchPreempting Threats to Connected Cars: The Importance of Cybersecurity in a Data-Driven Automotive Ecosystem
We examine the automotive data ecosystem and take a closer look at privacy and security concerns arising from how data is generated, consumed, and transmitted by connected vehicles.
November 15th, 2023 6 minNumaan Huq, Vladimir Kropotov, Philippe Lin, Rainer Vosseler
Read article -
ResearchSecurity for the Next-Generation Retail Supply Chain
What would shopping and retail be like in the future? We considered today's technologies to predict what’s in store for retail in 2030 and what that means for security.
December 2nd, 2021 19 minMayra Rosario Fuentes, Craig Gibson, Numaan Huq, Vladimir Kropotov
Read article -
ResearchIn 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 minNumaan Huq, Craig Gibson, Vladimir Kropotov, Rainer Vosseler
Read article -
ResearchCrimeware for Sale: The Commoditization of ATM Malware in the Cybercriminal Underground
Criminal sellers are peddling ready-to-use ATM malware in underground markets for hacking into banks. In this report, we discuss how criminals advertise and even provide instructions on how to pull off a digital heist.
June 28th, 2019 6 minNumaan Huq, Vladimir Kropotov, Mayra Rosario, David Sancho…
Read article