Numaan Huq
10 articles
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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…
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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
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