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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.

2026年9月16日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.

2026年9月10日 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.

2026年9月2日 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.

2026年8月25日 5 min
TrendAI™ Research
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Cyber crimeDeepfakesSocial engineering
How Cybercriminals Can Perform Virtual Kidnapping Scams Using AI Voice Cloning Tools and ChatGPT

This article gives an overview of the elements of virtual kidnapping and how malicious actors use social engineering tactics and abuse AI voice cloning tools and ChatGPT to launch these attacks.

June 28th, 2023 8 min read Craig Gibson, Josiah Hagen
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Cyber crime
How Residential Proxies and CAPTCHA-Solving Services Become Agents of Abuse

This article, the first of a two-part series, provides insights on how abusers and cybercriminals use residential proxies and CAPTCHA-solving services to enable bots, scrapers, and stuffers, and proposes security countermeasures for organizations.

June 26th, 2023 17 min read Fyodor Yarochkin, Philippe Lin, Bakuei Matsukawa, Ryan Flores…
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Cyber crimeSocial engineeringCryptocurrency
Unmasking Pig-Butchering Scams and Protecting Your Financial Future

This report delves into the nature of pig-butchering scams, how scammers carry out their operations, the new pig-butchering tactics we’ve observed in the wild, and what individuals can do to avoid falling for these fraudulent investments and dealing with massive amounts of debt.

June 22nd, 2023 TrendAI™ Research
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Ransomware & extortionCyber crime
Ransomware Spotlight: TargetCompany

We detail everything you need to know about TargetCompany, a ransomware family with different monickers, including the evolution of its attack flow as it cemented its place in the threat landscape.

June 5th, 2023 8 min read TrendAI™ Research
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Cyber crimeCybercriminal underground
Inside the Halls of a Cybercrime Business

We explore three differently sized criminal groups to determine how they compare to similarly sized legitimate businesses in terms of how they are organized. We also discuss the advantages of knowing the size of a target criminal organization for cybercrime investigators.

April 3rd, 2023 6 min read David Sancho, Mayra Rosario Fuentes
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Phishing & BECData privacy & regulation
A Growing Goldmine: Your LinkedIn Data Abused for Cybercrime

We looked into professional and business networking platform LinkedIn and how cybercriminals abuse the platform to victimize users and companies, and how they monetize posted personal, career, and organizational information.

March 28th, 2023 15 min read Veronica Chierzi, Mayra Rosario Fuentes
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IPFS: A New Data Frontier or a New Cybercriminal Hideout?

In this article, we briefly detail what IPFS is and how it works at the user level, before providing up to date statistics about the current usage of IPFS by cybercriminals, especially for hosting phishing content. We will also discuss emerging new cybercrime activities abusing the IPFS protocol and detail how cybercriminals already consider IPFS for their deeds.

March 16th, 2023 16 min read Cedric Pernet, Jaromir Horejsi, Loseway Lu
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Ransomware & extortionExploits & Zero-Days
Ransomware Spotlight: Royal

Backed by threat actors from Conti, Royal ransomware is poised to wreak havoc in the threat landscape, starting strong by taking a spot among the most prolific ransomware groups within three months since it was first reported. Combining new and old techniques and quick evolution, it is likely to remain a big player in the threat landscape in the future.

March 15th, 2023 7 min read TrendAI™ Research
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Cybercriminal underground
The Gender-Equal Cybercriminal Underground

A look into the cybercriminal gender gap, the status and perceptions on gender profiles in the underground, and the role assumptions have for law enforcement.

February 28th, 2023 26 min read Mayra Rosario Fuentes
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Ransomware & extortion
Ransomware Spotlight: Magniber

The Magniber ransomware initially targeted only Asian countries when it was first detected in 2017. However, it resurfaced in 2021 and continues to operate today with expanded targets around the globe. Magniber remains a significant player in the threat landscape, with malicious attackers likely to continue using the ransomware in future.

January 26th, 2023 6 min read TrendAI™ Research
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