Ransomware has evolved from an encryption-driven attack into one monetization path within a modular criminal economy, where access to victim environments, not the ransomware payload, is now the core commodity.
TrendAI™ Research analyzed the activities of SHADOW-EARTH-79, an entity abusing the real-time ad-tech bidding process to track and profile individuals in conflict zones, sanctioned states, and other sensitive locations worldwide.
Digital assistants are becoming trusted, capable intermediaries, which inadvertently makes them a powerful new vector for social engineering. This article examines how attackers could exploit an assistant’s knowledge, influence, and ability to act on a user’s behalf.
TrendAI™ Research examines the unique dynamics and factors that influence the adoption of AI in state-aligned APT activity. The report looks into four countries (China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran) to understand why their state-aligned actors adopt AI in the ways that they do.
Austria-based Fischer Advanced Composite Components AG (FACC), a major designer and manufacturer of aircraft components and systems, falls prey to a business email compromise (BEC) scheme that cost the company over 42 million euros in losses.
This primer discusses the importance of data classification, and how organizations can implement these strategies to reduce the effects should a data breach occur.
Newly-discovered ransomware strains, CryptXXX and 7ev3n, get major updates from malware authors.
Research on the common technologies used by cybercriminals and terrorists to benefit their cause, from the services they abuse to the tools they’ve homebrewed to streamline activities.
A new ransomware strain, CryptXXX, was recently discovered making its rounds since the tail-end of March.
Kentucky-based Methodist Hospital announced a ransomware attack that led to an “internal state of emergency.”
Top news sites, entertainment portals, and political commentary sites were affected by a massive malvertising campaign related to the Angler Exploit Kit.
The world is now more connected than ever. Gartner predicts 25 billion connected devices will be in use by 2020. How is this increased convenience affecting our privacy and security across the globe?
What we know about BlackEnergy, a Trojan known to have been used in attacks on Ukraine power providers that caused a massive outage in late 2015.
Operation Pawn Storm is an active economic and political cyber-espionage operation that has targeted high-profile entities from government institutions to media personalities. Here are its latest developments.
22 ottobre 2026
10 min