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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 września 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 września 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 września 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 sierpnia 2026 5 min
TrendAI™ Research
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Cyber crimeExploits & Zero-Days
Malicious Script Plagues Over 2,000 WordPress Accounts, Redirects Visitors to Scam Sites

Over 2,000 WordPress sites were compromised by a malicious script that redirects visitors to scam sites, gains admin access, and installs fake plugins.

January 24th, 2020 TrendAI™ Research
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Phishing & BEC
NetWire RAT Hidden in IMG Files Deployed in BEC Campaign

A recent BEC campaign targets organizations by sending them emails with IMG (disk imaging) file attachments hiding a NetWire remote access trojan.

January 23rd, 2020 2 min read
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Cyber crime
Sextortion Scheme Claims Use of Home Cameras, Demands Bitcoin or Gift Card Payment

A new sextortion scheme threatens to expose nude videos supposedly captured via victims' mobile phones and home cameras.

January 22nd, 2020 3 min read TrendAI™ Research
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OT & critical infrastructure
Fake Company, Real Threats: Logs From a Smart Factory Honeypot

To determine threat actors' degree of knowledge in compromising a smart factory, we deployed our most elaborate honeypot to date. The incidents we observed show the kinds of attacks that can easily affect poorly secured manufacturing environments.

January 21st, 2020 4 min read TrendAI™ Research
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Cyber crimeMalware
Mobile Banking Trojan FakeToken Resurfaces, Sends Offensive Messages Overseas from Victims’ Accounts

An updated version of mobile malware FakeToken was found sending massive numbers of offensive messages to foreign countries.

January 16th, 2020 2 min read TrendAI™ Research
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MalwareBotnetsCryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency Miner Uses Hacking Tool Haiduc and App Hider Xhide to Brute Force Machines and Servers

The cryptocurrency-miner, a multi-component threat comprised of different Perl and Bash scripts, miner binaries, the application hider Xhide, and a scanner tool, propagates by scanning vulnerable machines and brute-forcing (primarily default) credentials.

January 9th, 2020 Augusto Remillano II, Jemimah Molina
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Botnets
Into the Battlefield: A Security Guide to IoT Botnets

We recap the history and recent campaigns of IoT botnets to help users defend against the different malware competing for control and resources of regular smart devices.

December 19th, 2019 14 min read TrendAI™ Research
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IoT & smart devicesOT & critical infrastructure
Drilling Deep: A Look at Cyberattacks on the Oil and Gas Industry

We break down the digital attacks against the oil and gas industry and its supply chain.

December 12th, 2019 5 min read Feike Hacquebord, Cedric Pernet
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Cybercriminal underground
Cheats, Hacks, and Cyberattacks: Threats to the Esports Industry in 2019 and Beyond

Esports competitions continue to gain momentum, making the entities involved more attractive targets for cybercrime.

October 29th, 2019 3 min read TrendAI™ Research
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Ransomware & extortionMalware
Putting the Eternal in EternalBlue: Mapping the Use of the Infamous Exploit

In 2017, EternalBlue was the driving force behind one of the nastiest ransomware outbreaks on record. And despite available fixes, it is still being used by malware today—from ransomware to widespread cryptocurrency miners.

October 18th, 2019 4 min read TrendAI™ Research
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