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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, 20267 min read 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
TrendAI™ Research
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AI governance
Securing Sovereign AI: Practical Controls Across Physical, Software, and Model Supply Chains

Sovereign AI places responsibility for every layer of the security stack in the operator's hands, and this article examines the threats that accompany that shift alongside the practical controls that keep nationally owned AI systems trustworthy.

August 11th, 2026
Numaan Huq, David Girard
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An Invisible Attack Surface: Thousands of Industrial Control Systems Exposed Near Data Centers
Cloud security
An 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 min
Stephen Hilt, Numaan Huq
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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 read Mayra Rosario Fuentes, Stephen Hilt, Numaan Huq
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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 read TrendAI™ Research
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AI governance
Securing Sovereign AI: Practical Controls Across Physical, Software, and Model Supply Chains

Sovereign AI places responsibility for every layer of the security stack in the operator's hands, and this article examines the threats that accompany that shift alongside the practical controls that keep nationally owned AI systems trustworthy.

August 11th, 2026 Numaan Huq, David Girard
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Cloud security
An 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 min read Stephen Hilt, Numaan Huq
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AI
Pwning Agentic AI Part III: Securing Your AI Agent

This final installment of our trilogy on Pwning Agentic AI covers defenses against the return-to-tool (RTT) attacks—read-only Postgres bypass, support-ticket ransomware, and KYC passport exfiltration—demonstrated in Part II. Here we take a look at what works and what doesn’t against this new class of attack.

August 6th, 2026 12 min read Sean Park
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Cyber crime
What Cybercriminals Look For in Corporate Insiders

The supply and demand for insider threat actors have evolved from isolated opportunism into a structured, thriving criminal market, complete with brokers, recruiters, referral bonuses, guarantor services, and revenue-sharing arrangements. This research examines that market across different industries.

August 4th, 2026 Mayra Rosario Fuentes, Stephen Hilt, David Sancho
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AIAPTs
2026 H1 APT Report: How APTs Are Weaponizing Trust in the Age of AI

State-aligned threat actors are folding AI into every stage of the attack chain while hiding their infrastructure inside the services defenders already trust. This report unpacks the geopolitics driving the activity and what defenders should prioritize next.

July 29th, 2026 TrendAI™ Research
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AICyber threats
The Vulnerability Window Is Closing Quickly: What CISA and Five Eyes Now Say About Public Sector Security

CISA's BOD 26-04 and a new Five Eyes statement highlight the same urgent gaps in vulnerability management. Find out what these developments mean for your security program.

July 23rd, 2026 3 min read Jon Clay
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AICyber crime
Modern Bank Heists 2026: The Machine-Speed War for Financial Control

How agentic AI, nation-state actors, and cybercrime-as-a-service are outpacing financial sector defenses, and how defenders can respond at machine speed

July 22nd, 2026 8 min read Tom Kellermann (VP of AI Security and Threat Research, TrendAI™)
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AI
Governing the Republic of AI Agents: The Framework Your AI Agents Already Need

AI agents have evolved from tools to autonomous participants in your organization, but governance has not kept pace. TrendAI™ proposes a six-pillar framework built to close that gap.

July 21st, 2026 2 min read TrendAI™ Research
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