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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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AISocial engineering
From LinkedIn to Tailored Attack in 30 Minutes: How AI Accelerates Target Profiling for Cybercrime

The industrialization of AI-driven OSINT has transformed individual digital footprints into machine-readable intelligence at scale, enabling attackers to operationalize personalized reconnaissance at volume.

February 23rd, 2026 11 min read Numaan Huq, David Sancho
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AICyber threats
Threat Attribution Framework: How TrendAI™ Applies Structure Over Speculation

TrendAI™ brings structure and discipline to threat attribution, helping security leaders and teams make informed decisions about cyber risk, incident response, and overall defensive posture.

February 12th, 2026 15 min read Stephen Hilt
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AICyber threats
AI Skills as an Emerging Attack Surface in Critical Sectors: Enhanced Capabilities, New Risks

AI skills bridge the gap between AI capabilities and real-world operations, but in doing so, they also introduce new risks and avenues for attack. We explore the challenges of AI skill adoption and provide a practical framework for secure deployment.

February 10th, 2026 13 min read Vladimir Kropotov, Fyodor Yarochkin, Kirill Gelfand
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AIAI governance
How Unmanaged AI Adoption Puts Your Enterprise at Risk

We challenge assumptions about AI models by revealing real-world biases and limitations, and the impact of poorly managed AI adoptions.

January 21st, 2026 4 min read
Josiah Hagen, Vladimir Kropotov, Robert McArdle, Fyodor Yarochkin
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AICyber risk
Estimating Future Risk Outbreaks at Scale in Real-World Deployments

Trend™ Research introduces a novel system that leverages AI and behavioral analytics to proactively estimate the risk of future malware outbreaks based on users’ behavior to help organizations strategically strengthen their defenses.

December 16th, 2025 2 min read Marco Balduzzi, Roel Reyes, Jessica Balaquit, Ryan Flores…
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AICyber crimeCybercriminal underground
The Next Phase of Cybercrime: Agentic AI and the Shift to Autonomous Criminal Operations

We dive into the transformation from “Cybercrime-as-a-Service“ to “Cybercrime-as-a-Sidekick“, which fundamentally alters the operational dynamics of criminal enterprises.

December 9th, 2025 6 min read
Stephen Hilt, Robert McArdle
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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.

November 18th, 2025 18 min read Roel Reyes, Numaan Huq, Salvatore Gariuolo
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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.

November 11th, 2025 15 min read David Sancho, Vincenzo Ciancaglini, Salvatore Gariuolo
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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.

November 5th, 2025 TrendAI™ Research
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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.

October 30th, 2025 11 min read Numaan Huq, Roel Reyes
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