Unconventional Attack Surfaces: Identity Replication via Employee Digital Twins

Trend Micro Research describes Employee Digital Twins (EDTs) — AI models that replicate an employee's knowledge, personality, mindset, and trust relationships — as a new, high-leverage identity-level attack surface. The report explains how EDTs can be hijacked, poisoned, or cloned (shadow creation), outlines a five‑phase kill chain and proposed MITRE ATT&CK extensions, highlights detection signals and day‑one controls, and recommends governance, offboarding, and monitoring practices to mitigate persistent and hard-to-remediate identity compromise.