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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.

TrendAI™ 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.

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.

Mayra Rosario Fuentes, Stephen Hilt, Numaan Huq
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Social engineeringAICyber crime
Reimagining Fraud Operations: The Rise of AI-Powered Scam Assembly Lines

Trend™ Research replicated an AI-powered scam assembly line to reveal how AI is eradicating the barrier for entry to running scams, making fraud easier to run, harder to detect, and effortless to scale.

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Cyber crimeLLMsMalware
The Devil Reviews Xanthorox: A Criminal-Focused Analysis of the Latest Malicious LLM Offering

Xanthorox AI: flirty, menacing, and potentially devastating? We explored the inner workings of this LLM to unveil its devious capabilities for generating malicious code, obtaining private information, and roleplaying.

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AILLMsZero trust
AI Security Starts Here: The Essentials for Every Organization

AI’s rapid growth brings new risks as well as opportunities. Strong security foundations are essential to ensure innovation remains safe, compliant, and resilient.

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AIOT & critical infrastructure
Agentic Edge AI: Development Tools and Workflows

Trend™ Research inspected agentic edge AI systems and the development tools and workflows they leverage and uncovered an intricate labyrinth that demands robust protection from cyberthreats.

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Ransomware & extortionExploits & Zero-Days
Ransomware Spotlight: DragonForce

DragonForce, a Ransomware-as-a-Service group first observed in 2023, rose to greater prominence in 2025 after a series of notable attacks linked to the group. Despite its unclear origins, what is evident is its rapid evolution and its aggressive, affiliate-driven model, marking it as a rising threat to watch out for.

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AILLMsCloud security
Stay Ahead of AI Threats: Secure LLM Applications With Trend Vision One

Trend Vision One™ tackles 9 of OWASP’s Top 10 LLM vulnerabilities, offering comprehensive protection against prompt injection, data leakage, AI supply chain risks, and other critical flaws.

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AIOT & critical infrastructure
Agentic Edge AI: Autonomous Intelligence on the Edge

Agentic edge AI offers enhanced advantages, but with this comes cybersecurity challenges. Learn more about agentic edge AI and its architecture, and equip your organization by examining related threats and mitigation strategies for these risks.

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Cloud security
Using Containers to Secure Your MCP Infrastructure

Security risks to MCP servers can be mitigated by running them within containers. This report discusses these security risks and how MCP containerization can implement least privilege in practice.

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Cyber crimeCloud
Complexity and Visibility Gaps in Power Automate

Amid the rise of low-code automation, Microsoft Power Automate is becoming an attractive target for cybercriminals exploiting its complexity to evade detection and exfiltrate data – but demand for compromised enterprise assets is outstripping supply in the cybercriminal underground.

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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.

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