Salvatore Gariuolo
5 articles
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AI and Emerging TechnologiesReimagining 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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AI and Emerging TechnologiesThe 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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AI and Emerging TechnologiesThe 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, 2025Vincenzo Ciancaglini, Marco Balduzzi, Salvatore Gariuolo, Rainer Vosseler…
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AI and Emerging TechnologiesDeepfake 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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AI and Emerging TechnologiesThe 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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