Volume Is Not Risk: Making Sense of the “Vulnpocalypse”
A briefing for security leaders on separating vulnerability disclosure volume from exploitable risk in 2026.
TrendAI™ Research analyzed over 200 Gemini CLI session logs showing how a Russian-speaking threat actor used AI to run a live botnet, finishing a full C&C migration in six minutes while doing just 11% of the work himself.
A briefing for security leaders on separating vulnerability disclosure volume from exploitable risk in 2026.
TrendAI™ Research analyzed over 200 Gemini CLI session logs showing how a Russian-speaking threat actor used AI to run a live botnet, finishing a full C&C migration in six minutes while doing just 11% of the work himself.
In this blog entry, TrendAI™ Research examines a wave of phishing emails observed in May 2026 that targeted Japanese accommodation facilities using Booking.com, detailing the victims, attack techniques used, and characteristics of the malware involved.
We tracked a cryptocurrency-mining campaign exploiting CVE-2026-33017, which revealed how threat actors are now scanning exposed AI application infrastructure for their next foothold.
I think we can all agree that artificial intelligence has evolved from innovative projects into a business reality. New use cases emerge daily as employees experiment with generative AI tools, and organizations increasingly integrate AI into business processes.
A pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) chain in Oracle PeopleSoft PeopleTools abuses the Integration Broker's PSIGW gateway to execute code inside the application server's Java virtual machine (JVM), evading behavioral and network sensors.
Cybercriminals hijacked Google Ads searches for popular AI developer tools to funnel over 2,000 victims toward malicious download pages before quietly moving their operation onto claude.ai's own platform, turning the trusted domain into a delivery mechanism for credential-stealing malware.
TrendAI™ integrates Anthropic's Claude Compliance API into TrendAI Vision One™ through two collectors that bring AI-aware visibility and detection to Claude Enterprise usage: one keeps all data inside the environment, while the other feeds TrendAI Vision One™ for deeper correlation and compliance.
This year’s Pwn2Own competition in Berlin revealed just how much of the AI stack remains exposed -- and the gap between what these tools promise and what they can withstand point to the fragile security foundations underneath.
Two separate Russia-aligned campaigns are still exploiting the WinRAR flaw CVE-2025-8088 against Ukrainian organizations nearly a year after it was patched, showing how unmanaged software keeps an exploited entry point open long after the fix ships.