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Critical Infrastructure Under Threat: How Frontier AI Changes the Risk Equation
AIOT & critical infrastructure

Critical Infrastructure Under Threat: How Frontier AI Changes the Risk Equation

The critical systems we can’t afford to lose are the same ones attackers are racing to target. With a new generation of AI-augmented cyber threats, what used to be weeks of warning can collapse into mere hours. What is the current state of the threat landscape for essential industries, and what can organizations do to fortify their defenses? Uncover this and more in our report.

September 16th, 2026TrendAI™ Research
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Rethinking the External Attack Surface: Managing the Growing Risk of Open Cyber-Physical Data
IoT & smart devicesASM ASRM
Rethinking the External Attack Surface: Managing the Growing Risk of Open Cyber-Physical Data

China-aligned operational relay box (ORB) infrastructure is harvesting open sensor data at scale, and most defenders can't see it. Our report dives into how these ORBs can use open telemetry for data collection and other purposes.

September 10th, 2026 6 min
Fyodor Yarochkin, Vladimir Kropotov, Robert McArdle
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HacktivismRansomware & extortion
Mapping 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 min
Mayra Rosario Fuentes, Stephen Hilt, Numaan Huq
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Security 101: Virtual Patching
Exploits & Zero-Days
Security 101: Virtual Patching

What happens to an unpatched or vulnerable application or organization’s IT infrastructure? Here's how virtual patching helps enterprises address vulnerability and patch management woes.

August 25th, 2026 5 min
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Cyber crimeGenerative AI
Do 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 min read
Ryan Flores, Numaan Huq, Vladimir Kropotov, Robert McArdle…
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Cyber crimeSocial engineering
Unmasking Task Scams to Prevent Financial Fallout From Fraud

This report exposes the life cycle and tactics of task scams by presenting real-world cases as well as strategies to help identify and avoid these threats.

August 19th, 2025 20 min read Christopher Boyton, Mayra Rosario Fuentes
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Cloud securityIdentity & access management (IAM)
Beware of MCP Hardcoded Credentials: A Perfect Target for Threat Actors

Poor secret management in MCP servers can lead to serious consequences, including data breaches and supply chain attacks. This article examines the reality of these unsecure configurations and offers practical recommendations that minimize the chances of exposure.

August 13th, 2025 7 min read Alfredo Oliveira , David Fiser
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AILLMsAI governance
LLM as a Judge: Evaluating Accuracy in LLM Security Scans

As large language models (LLMs) become more capable and widely adopted, the risk of unintended or adversarial outputs grows, especially within a security-sensitive context. To identify and mitigate such risks, Trend Micro researchers ran LLM security scans that simulate adversarial attacks.

August 4th, 2025 13 min read Matthew Burton, Albert Shala, Anurag Das
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AICyber crime
The 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 min read Salvatore Gariuolo, Rainer Vosseler
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Threat reportsAI
Trend Micro State of AI Security Report 1H 2025

Trend Micro’s State of AI Security report explores how AI’s rapid adoption is transforming both business efficiency and cybercrime methods, highlighting novel threats and strategic defenses to help organizations adapt in an increasingly AI-driven world.

July 29th, 2025 12 min read TrendAI™ Research
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AISoftware supply chainZero trust
The 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, 2025 Fernando Tucci, Vincenzo Ciancaglini, Marco Balduzzi, Salvatore Gariuolo…
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AILLMsCyber crime
Exploiting 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, 2025 Ashish Verma, Deep Patel
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Exploits & Zero-DaysAIZero trust
MCP 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, 2025 Alfredo Oliveira , David Fiser
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Threat reportsPhishing & BEC
Email Threat Landscape Report: Evolving Threats in Email-Based Attacks

Email-based cyber threats are growing more sophisticated, with attackers increasingly using tactics like QR code phishing, known malware variants, and AI-powered impersonation to bypass traditional defenses and target users, data, and systems.

July 15th, 2025 8 min read TrendAI™ Research
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