Salvatore Gariuolo
10 articles
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ResearchHow Digital Assistants Change Social Engineering
Digital assistants are becoming trusted, capable intermediaries, which inadvertently makes them a powerful new vector for social engineering. This article examines how attackers could exploit an assistant’s knowledge, influence, and ability to act on a user’s behalf.
October 14th, 2026Salvatore Gariuolo
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BlogViral AI, Invisible Risks: What OpenClaw Reveals About Agentic Assistants
OpenClaw (aka Clawdbot or Moltbot) represents a new frontier in agentic AI: powerful, highly autonomous, and surprisingly easy to use. In this research, we examine how its capabilities compare to its predecessors’ and highlight the security risks inherent to the agentic AI paradigm.
February 6th, 2026 14 minSalvatore Gariuolo, Vincenzo Ciancaglini, Fernando Tucci
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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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ResearchThe Devil Reviews Xanthorox: A Criminal-Focused Analysis of the Latest Malicious LLM Offering
Xanthorox AI: flirty, menacing, and potentially devastating? We explored the inner workings of this LLM to unveil its devious capabilities for generating malicious code, obtaining private information, and roleplaying.
November 11th, 2025 15 minDavid Sancho, Vincenzo Ciancaglini, Salvatore Gariuolo
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ResearchThe Silent Leap: OpenAI’s New ChatGPT Agent Capabilities and Security Risks
OpenAI recently introduced ChatGPT agent. What are its capabilities and the associated cybersecurity risks? We examined these using Trend Micro’s Digital Assistant Framework to help organizations navigate the changes and risks this new digital assistant may bring.
August 1st, 2025 12 minSalvatore Gariuolo, Rainer Vosseler
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ResearchThe Road to Agentic AI: Navigating Architecture, Threats, and Solutions
As agentic AI systems grow increasingly complex, it becomes clear that this class of applications relies on a multi-layered architecture. Trying to chart such architecture reveals several security risks that could plague each layer. This article investigates the possible scenarios and offers actionable insights to secure each layer and combat such threats.
July 28th, 2025Fernando Tucci, Vincenzo Ciancaglini, Marco Balduzzi, Salvatore Gariuolo…
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ResearchDeepfake It ‘til You Make It: A Comprehensive View of the New AI Criminal Toolset
This report takes a comprehensive look at how deepfakes are used to support criminal business processes, what are the toolkits criminals are exploiting to power their deepfake creation, and what the deepfake underground looks like.
July 9th, 2025David Sancho, Salvatore Gariuolo, Vincenzo Ciancaglini
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ResearchThe Road to Agentic AI: Defining a New Paradigm for Technology and Cybersecurity
Our latest research provides a framework for understanding agentic AI systems, outlines their core characteristics, and examines the security implications surrounding their use.
June 17th, 2025Salvatore Gariuolo, Vincenzo Ciancaglini
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ResearchCES 2025: A Comprehensive Look at AI Digital Assistants and Their Security Risks
In this entry, we mapped the capabilities of various AI digital assistants that were showcased at CES 2025 based on an assessment matrix we developed to determine how this emerging technology holds up against potential security threats.
February 10th, 2025 12 minVincenzo Ciancaglini, Salvatore Gariuolo, Stephen Hilt, Rainer Vosseler
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ResearchAI Assistants in the Future: Security Concerns and Risk Management
The article explores the evolving landscape of AI digital assistants, highlighting their transformative potential, associated security risks, and the importance of robust design and collaboration to ensure a secure and user-centric future.
December 6th, 2024 15 minVincenzo Ciancaglini, Salvatore Gariuolo, Stephen Hilt, Robert McArdle…
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