Ryan Flores
11 articles
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ResearchForecasting Future Outbreaks: A Behavioral and Predictive Approach to Proactive Cyber Risk Management
TrendAI™ Research has found that user behaviors and machine usage patterns are key drivers of malware risk. This study’s analysis of over 10 million endpoints confirms that risk is highly context-dependent and offers insights into how organizations can pivot to improve their security posture.
March 5th, 2026 10 minMarco Balduzzi, Roel Reyes, Jessica Balaquit, Ryan Flores…
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ResearchEstimating 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 minMarco Balduzzi, Roel Reyes, Jessica Balaquit, Ryan Flores…
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BlogHow AI-Native Development Platforms Enable Fake Captcha Pages
Cybercriminals are abusing AI-native platforms like Vercel, Netlify, and Lovable to host fake captcha pages that deceive users, bypass detection, and drive phishing campaigns.
September 19th, 2025 4 minRyan Flores, Bakuei Matsukawa
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ResearchDo 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.
September 4th, 2025 5 minRyan Flores, Numaan Huq, Vladimir Kropotov, Robert McArdle…
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ResearchAI vs AI: DeepFakes and eKYC
This analysis investigates the security risks of eKYC systems in relation to deepfake attacks, highlighting the diverse strategies employed by cybercriminals in bypassing eKYC security measures.
November 28th, 2024 15 minPhilippe Lin, Fernando Mercês, Roel Reyes, Ryan Flores…
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ResearchGuarding AI Models From Malicious Alterations in the AI PC Era
This article discusses the importance of properly identifying and protecting AI model files and their associated assets, such as labels, from malicious or even unintended tampering.
June 4th, 2024 5 minRyan Flores, Philippe Lin, Roel Reyes
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ResearchMQTT and M2M: Do You Know Who Owns Your Machine’s Data?
In our research, we demonstrate how easy it is to discover insecure deployments of MQTT, how to identify customers of these insecure deployments, what data is being transmitted, and explore how an attacker can potentially misuse the data or abuse the insecurity of MQTT brokers.
October 8th, 2023Ryan Flores, Charles Perine
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ResearchA Closer Exploration of Residential Proxies and CAPTCHA-Breaking Services
This article, the final part of a two-part series, focuses on the details of our technical findings and analyses of select residential proxies and CAPTCHA-solving services.
July 27th, 2023 28 minFyodor Yarochkin, Philippe Lin, Bakuei Matsukawa, Ryan Flores…
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ResearchHow 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 minFyodor Yarochkin, Philippe Lin, Bakuei Matsukawa, Ryan Flores…
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ResearchHow Cybercriminals Abuse Cloud Tunneling Services
Our research examines how cloud tunneling services work and how organizations can thwart threats that abuse them.
April 26th, 2022 24 minRyan Flores, Stephen Hilt, Lord Remorin
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ResearchHunting Threats on Twitter: How Social Media can be Used to Gather Actionable Threat Intelligence
Social media is a content-rich platform many enterprises use, but how can InfoSec professionals and security teams use it to gather threat intelligence that they can use to protect their organizations?
July 30th, 2019 17 minVladimir Kropotov, Fyodor Yarochkin, Ryan Flores, Jon Oliver
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