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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.

16 de septiembre de 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.

10 de septiembre de 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.

2 de septiembre de 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.

25 de agosto de 2026 5 min
TrendAI™ Research
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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
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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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AI governance
Building Sovereign AI: Technical Considerations for Foundation and Architecture

Governments around the world are committing billions to domestic AI development, but the race to create sovereign AI strategies has outpaced a clear understanding of what sovereignty actually requires. This research offers government and enterprise leaders a practical, layer-by-layer framework for determining how sovereign they need to be, and where it matters most.

July 20th, 2026 Numaan Huq, David Girard
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AICloud
Agentic AI’s Shadow Pipeline: Mapping the Attack Surface Behind Trusted Workflows

As enterprises connect AI agents to cloud infrastructure and production workflows, the cloud-to-agent pipeline is becoming a primary attack surface. This article maps the risks for tech, media, and communications organizations and outlines detection and security best practices.

July 17th, 2026 TrendAI™ Research
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AIExploits & Zero-Days
Pwning Agentic AI Part II: When Trusted Agents Do Untrusted Things

Return-to-tool isn't theoretical. TrendAI™ Research presents three cases showing exactly how a compromised agent—wielding only its own approved tools—becomes the most dangerous component in the stack.

July 16th, 2026 13 min read Sean Park
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Cyber riskThreat reports
Informe de Riesgo Cibernético TrendAI™ 2026

El Informe de Riesgo Cibernético 2026 se basa en los hallazgos del año pasado con telemetría ampliada, proporcionando a las organizaciones las perspectivas y datos direccionales que pueden utilizarse para ayudar a priorizar las exposiciones que más importan antes de que los atacantes las alcancen.

July 8th, 2026 TrendAI™ Research
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AIExploits & Zero-Days
Stars 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, 2026 Vincenzo Ciancaglini, Marco Balduzzi, Alfredo Oliveira , David Fiser
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Cyber threatsOT & critical infrastructure
The Attackers Are Already Inside: NERC CIP-015 Is How the Grid Fights Back

NERC CIP-015 is the first NERC CIP standard to mandate internal network security monitoring for Bulk Electric System environments. Here is what it requires, why OT environments make compliance hard, and how TrendAI™ addresses each obligation.

June 22nd, 2026 Amruta Namjoshi, Bharat Mistry
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AICyber crime
The Hidden Risk in Your AI Rollout: Your Endpoints

Rethink endpoint security for the AI era. Endpoints now converge users, identities, data, and AI, increasing risk from shadow AI and advanced attacks. This demands stronger visibility, correlation, and resilience.

June 8th, 2026 Dereus Caldwell
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Targeted attacksCybercriminal underground
The Cybercriminal Underground: Mapping the Healthcare Data Economy

A look inside an industrialized economy where stolen healthcare data is bought, sold, and weaponized, from ransomware breaches to broker access and fake medical documents fueling an expanding criminal supply chain.

June 4th, 2026 Stephen Hilt, Numaan Huq, Mayra Rosario Fuentes
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