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Compliance & Risks

Why East-West Visibility Matters for Grid Security

Learn how east-west traffic visibility helps detect and stop lateral movement attacks inside electric grid infrastructure and critical OT networks.

Consumer Focus Mar 18, 2026

Cyber Threats

From Misconfigured Spring Boot Actuator to SharePoint Exfiltration: How Stolen Credentials Bypass MFA

Not every cloud breach starts with malware or a zero-day. In this incident, attackers discovered an exposed Spring Boot Actuator endpoint, harvested credentials from leaked configuration data, then used the OAuth2 Resource Owner Password Credentials (ROPC) flow to authenticate without MFA.

Investigations Mar 18, 2026

Cyber Crime

TrendAI™ Supports Global Law Enforcement Efforts

Learn how TrendAI™ and our researchers contributed threat intelligence and analysis to support INTERPOL against cybercrime.

Ransomware

Web Shells, Tunnels, and Ransomware: Dissecting a Warlock Attack

Warlock continues to enhance its attack chain with new tactics to improve persistence, lateral movement, and defense evasion using an expanded toolset: TightVNC Yuze, and a persistent BYOVD technique leveraging the NSec driver.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Securing Autonomous AI Agents with TrendAI & NVIDIA OpenShell

Learn how TrendAI and NVIDIA OpenShell help secure autonomous AI agents and build trusted enterprise AI systems with stronger visibility and control.

Malware

Through the Lens of MDR: Analysis of KongTuke’s ClickFix Abuse of Compromised WordPress Sites

Our analysis of an active KongTuke campaign deploying modeloRAT — malware capable of reconnaissance, command execution, and persistent access — through compromised WordPress sites and fake CAPTCHA lures shows that the group still operates this delivery chain in parallel with the newer CrashFix technique.