AI

Edge devices have become a primary entry point for state-sponsored espionage, giving attackers a cheaper, faster path to network access, credential theft, and traffic interception. Our report examines the threat landscape, economics, and actor activity driving this shift, along with what CISOs and security leaders can do to respond.

AI‑enabled APTs are accelerating attacks, shrinking response windows, and raising the stakes. This report reveals what’s changed and how to defend against it.

A jailbreak through sockpuppeting can be easily done as it requires no special tools nor optimization. It only takes a faulty prefill feature, and the gates are open. We tested 11 LLM-powered assistants against sockpuppeting and found varying levels of robustness across today’s leading LLMs.

TrendAI™ Research has developed a model training procedure for learning an essential representation of prompt injection attacks. The resulting prompt representation exhibits approximately linear separability, allowing the specialized, small-scale classifier trained on features derived from the representation to achieve high classification performance.

Agentic AI marks a fundamental shift that enables autonomous action and decision-making across enterprise systems but also introduces new, complex risks. TrendAI™’s Agentic Governance Gateway empowers organizations to understand, control, and trust agentic AI, ensuring safety and confidence in this new frontier.

In this second installment of a series exploring emerging AI-driven attack surfaces, TrendAI™ Research focuses on employee digital twins: AI replicas of employees that create new vectors for identity compromise, data exfiltration, and persistent access.

AI systems were ground zero for cyber risk in the second half of 2025: Critical flaws were on the rise and adversaries targeted every layer of the AI stack. As underlying weaknesses across the ecosystem continue to widen, organizations must adopt a vigilant, AI-first approach to defense.

AI now enables attackers to rapidly convert publicly shared personal images into scalable, highly targeted phishing intelligence, turning everyday online photos into a significant and often overlooked security risk for individuals and enterprises.

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.