AI and Emerging Technologies
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AI and Emerging TechnologiesStars Don’t Save You: Popularity Is Not Security in the MCP Ecosystem
Building on our previous research, we correlated the security issues identified in public MCP servers with metadata crawled from popular directories. We then analyzed whether indicators such as popularity, activity, and vetting serve as reliable metrics to infer the risk of adopting an MCP server.
June 24th, 2026Vincenzo Ciancaglini, Marco Balduzzi, Alfredo Oliveira, David Fiser
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AI and Emerging TechnologiesDriving Security at the Speed of AI Agents with NVIDIA DOCA
Agentic AI compresses exploit timelines from weeks to hours, and reactive security can't keep pace. TrendAI™, working with NVIDIA, delivers an isolated trust architecture purpose-built for AI infrastructure, hardening AI factories before attackers find a way in.
June 1st, 2026TrendAI™ Research
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AI and Emerging TechnologiesSockpuppeting: How a Single Line Can Bypass LLM Safety Guardrails
A jailbreak through sockpuppeting can be easily done as it requires no special tools nor optimization. It only takes a faulty prefill feature, and the gates are open. We tested 11 LLM-powered assistants against sockpuppeting and found varying levels of robustness across today's leading LLMs.
April 10th, 2026 12 minKien Do
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AI and Emerging TechnologiesFrom Anarchy to Authority: Closing the Governance Gap in Agentic AI
Agentic AI marks a fundamental shift that enables autonomous action and decision-making across enterprise systems but also introduces new, complex risks. TrendAI's Agentic Governance Gateway empowers organizations to understand, control, and trust agentic AI.
March 30th, 2026 6 minRachel Jin, Russell Meyers, Alifiya Sadikali, Casey Mondoux
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AI and Emerging TechnologiesFrom 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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AI and Emerging TechnologiesAI Skills as an Emerging Attack Surface in Critical Sectors: Enhanced Capabilities, New Risks
AI skills bridge the gap between AI capabilities and real-world operations, but in doing so, they also introduce new risks and avenues for attack. We explore the challenges of AI skill adoption and provide a practical framework for secure deployment.
February 10th, 2026 13 minVladimir Kropotov, Fyodor Yarochkin, Kirill Gelfand
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AI and Emerging TechnologiesHow Unmanaged AI Adoption Puts Your Enterprise at Risk
We challenge assumptions about AI models by revealing real-world biases and limitations, and the impact of poorly managed AI adoptions.
January 21st, 2026 4 minJosiah Hagen, Vladimir Kropotov, Robert McArdle, Fyodor Yarochkin
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AI and Emerging TechnologiesThe Next Phase of Cybercrime: Agentic AI and the Shift to Autonomous Criminal Operations
We dive into the transformation from “Cybercrime-as-a-Service“ to “Cybercrime-as-a-Sidekick“, which fundamentally alters the operational dynamics of criminal enterprises.
December 9th, 2025 6 minStephen Hilt, Robert McArdle
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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 TechnologiesAI Security Starts Here: The Essentials for Every Organization
AI’s rapid growth brings new risks as well as opportunities. Strong security foundations are essential to ensure innovation remains safe, compliant, and resilient.
November 5th, 2025TrendAI™ Research
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AI and Emerging TechnologiesAgentic 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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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 TechnologiesExploiting Trust in Open-Source AI: The Hidden Supply Chain Risk No One Is Watching
As open-source AI models become foundational to digital infrastructure, hidden backdoors and tampered supply chains pose a growing, under-recognized threat that traditional security tools can fail to detect.
July 25th, 2025Ashish Verma, Deep Patel
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Vulnerabilities And ExploitsMCP Security: Network-Exposed Servers Are Backdoors to Your Private Data
Exposed MCP servers pose a risk for organizations utilizing them. Our research examined the types of concerns that emerge and how to keep systems safe through immediate and extended measures.
July 16th, 2025Alfredo Oliveira, David Fiser
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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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AI and Emerging TechnologiesSlopsquatting: When AI Agents Hallucinate Malicious Packages
Our research examines how AI coding assistants can hallucinate plausible but non-existent package names—therefore enabling slopsquatting attacks—while also providing practical defense strategies that organizations can implement to secure their development pipelines
June 5th, 2025Sean Park
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AI and Emerging TechnologiesUnveiling AI Agent Vulnerabilities Part III: Data Exfiltration
In the third part of our series we demonstrate how risk intensifies in multi-modal AI agents, where hidden instructions embedded within innocuous-looking images or documents can trigger sensitive data exfiltration without any user interaction.
May 12th, 2025Sean Park
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AI and Emerging TechnologiesExploiting AI: How Cybercriminals Misuse and Abuse AI and ML
We discuss the present state of the malicious uses and abuses of AI and ML and the plausible future scenarios in which cybercriminals might abuse these technologies for ill gain.
November 19th, 2020TrendAI™ Research, United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), Europol
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