Explainable AI-Driven Cyber Risk Analytics and Model Reliability Assessment for Intelligent Governance of U.S. Critical Infrastructure: An XGBoost and SHAP-Based Intrusion Detection Framework

The increasing penetrations of the critical infrastructure sector in the United States with intelligent digital technologies have greatly increased exposure to advanced cyber adversaries and operational vulnerabilities. AI-powered governance and automated decision-making systems are becoming a ke...

Vulnerability Disclosure in the Age of AI

New article: "Responsible Disclosure in the Age of AI: A Call for Urgent Action," by Melissa Hathaway. Abstract: Artificial intelligence is fundamentally reshaping the balance between vulnerability discovery and remediation. Frontier AI models are now capable of autonomously identifying exploitab...

Human Factors in Cybersecurity in Icelandic Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Cybersecurity threats are increasing in all aspects of society due to the integration of digital systems into modern-day life and a volatile geo-political landscape. Technical factors are an ongoing arms race; however, the threat surface from human and social factors is still present, often...

From Frontier to Shadow AI: A Simmering Threat to Assurance and Security in Critical Infrastructure

Frontier AI systems, including large language models and emerging agentic AI tools, offer significant operational benefits but present unique challenges to critical infrastructure CI environments due to their non-deterministic and emergent properties. While formal adoption is inherently cautious...

From Backup Restoration to Minimum Viable Factory Recovery: A Systematization of Ransomware Recovery in Manufacturing Systems

Ransomware recovery in critical manufacturing infrastructure is not only a backup-restoration problem. Production capability depends on coupled information-technology, operational-technology, physical-process, quality, logistics, identity, and supplier systems. After ransomware, a plant may rebui...

How AI Hallucinations Are Creating Real Security Risks

AI hallucinations are introducing serious security risks into critical infrastructure decision-making by exploiting human trust through highly confident yet incorrect outputs. When an AI model lacks certainty, it doesn’t have a mechanism to recognize that. Instead, it generates the most probable...

Why Canadian Telecom Providers Are Prime Targets for Cyberattacks

Canadian telecom providers face mounting cyber threats from ransomware, SIM swapping, data breaches, and nation-state attacks targeting critical infrastructure...

PT-2026-37659

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions JohnsonControls AC2000 versions 10.6 through 10 JohnsonControls AC2000 versions 11.0 through 9 JohnsonControls AC2000 versions 12 through 3 Description An uncontrolled search path element issue allows for the manipulation of configuration file...

CTEM for Telecom Companies | Cybersecurity for Telecommunications

Protect Critical Infrastructure. Prevent Service Disruption. Secure Subscriber Data at Scale. Telecom companies operate some of the most complex, high-value attack surfaces in any industry. With billions of connected devices, legacy protocols like SS7 still in production, and 5G rollouts expandin...

Iran-Linked Hackers Disrupt U.S. Critical Infrastructure by Targeting Internet-Exposed PLCs

Iran-affiliated cyber actors are targeting internet-facing operational technology OT devices across critical infrastructures in the U.S., including programmable logic controllers PLCs, cybersecurity and intelligence agencies warned Tuesday. "These attacks have led to diminished PLC functionality,...

Iran-Linked Hackers Are Sabotaging US Energy and Water Infrastructure

As Trump threatens Iranian infrastructure, the US government warns that Iran has carried out its own digital attacks against US critical infrastructure...

TrendAI Insight: New U.S. National Cyber Strategy

TrendAI reviews the White House National Cyber Strategy, outlining six pillars to strengthen U.S. cybersecurity—from deterrence and regulation to federal modernization, critical infrastructure protection, AI leadership, and workforce development...

The threat to critical infrastructure has changed. Has your readiness?

Critical infrastructure CI organizations underpin national security, public safety, and the economy. In 2026, the cyber threat landscape facing these sectors is structurally different than it was even two years ago. What Microsoft Threat Intelligence is observing across critical infrastructure...

The threat to critical infrastructure has changed. Has your readiness?

Critical infrastructure CI organizations underpin national security, public safety, and the economy. In 2026, the cyber threat landscape facing these sectors is structurally different than it was even two years ago. What Microsoft Threat Intelligence is observing across critical infrastructure...

BPFdoor in Telecom Networks: Sleeper Cells in the Backbone

Executive overview The strategic positioning of covert access within the world’s telecommunication networks A months-long investigation by Rapid7 Labs has uncovered evidence of an advanced China-nexus threat actor, Red Menshen, placing some of the stealthiest digital sleeper cells the team has ev...

Pawn Storm Campaign Deploys PRISMEX, Targets Government and Critical Infrastructure Entities

This blog discusses the steganography, cloud abuse, and email-based backdoors used against the Ukrainian defense supply chain in the latest Pawn Storm campaign that TrendAI™ Research observed and analyzed...

Web Server Exploits and Mimikatz Used in Attacks Targeting Asian Critical Infrastructure

High-value organizations located in South, Southeast, and East Asia have been targeted by a Chinese threat actor as part of a years-long campaign. The activity, which has targeted aviation, energy, government, law enforcement, pharmaceutical, technology, and telecommunications sectors, has been...

The Iranian Cyber Capability 2026

The Iranian Cyber Capability 2026 By John Fokker and Ernesto Fernández Provecho · March 5, 2026 Introduction In 2024, we published an assessment of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s cyber capabilities, outlining the structure, tradecraft, and strategic intent of Iranian-aligned threat actors. The co...

Active exploitation of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN by UAT-8616

Cisco Talos is tracking the active exploitation of CVE-2026-20127, a vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller, formerly vSmart, that allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to bypass authentication and obtain administrative privileges on the affected system by sending a crafted request...

Safe and Inclusive E‑Society: How Lithuania Is Bracing for AI‑Driven Cyber Fraud

Technologies are evolving fast, reshaping economies, governance, and daily life. Yet, as innovation accelerates, so do digital risks. Technological change is no longer abstract for such a country as Lithuania, as well. From e-signatures to digital health records, the country depends on secure...