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Dream researchers push technology to its furthest edge, building and testing breakthrough capabilities, from artificial intelligence and advanced threat hunting to malware reverse engineering, and vulnerability research in existing and emerging attack surfaces.

Operating at the frontier of cyber and artificial intelligence research, we turn bold ideas into working innovation that strengthens how nations anticipate, understand, and neutralize the most complex threats.

Chained PHP2Shell Exploit Roots 25 Servers, including US Government Servers
Dream Research
October 26, 2026

Custom PHP2Shell Exploit Chained with Kernel LPE to Root Firewalls in the Wild

Who Controls Your Router?
Dream Research
October 26, 2026

A router that phones home with your admin session tokens. That’s just one of fifteen findings in a single firmware image.

Building Cybersecurity Language Models with MiST
Oded Ovadia, Elad Ben Zaken, Elad Guttman and Orly Moreno Kadosh
October 19, 2026

MiST adds a dedicated cybersecurity mid-training stage to compact language models. We are releasing MiST-8B and MiST-30B-A3B on Hugging Face.

Mid-Training NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL for Cybersecurity
Elad Ben Zaken and Oded Ovadia
October 15, 2026

How Dream builds deep security knowledge into a 120B open model on NVIDIA DGX B200, and what an AI agent and a researcher taught us about training it fast.

DarkBlinders: Inside an Active Espionage Campaign
Dream Research Labs
October 8, 2026

Dream uncovered an active DarkBlinders espionage campaign against Israel and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, linking the activity to UNC5795, Dust Specter, and APT34 through GitHub-based command and control.

The Benefits of Training Small Models on Many Tasks
Ran Avnimelech
September 9, 2026

Fine-tuning small language models on up to 24 tasks at once left per-task accuracy intact and improved transfer to unseen tasks by as much as 10.8 points.

Hercules: On-Premises AI Vulnerability Model, Ranked #1 Globally
Arad Inbar, Ben Grinberg , Elad Ben Zaken, Erez Cohen, Nir Somech, Oded Ovadia
September 3, 2026

Hercules, Dream's on-premises AI vulnerability-research model, ranked #1 globally — built so defenders never send code to external frontier providers.

The Intelligence Factory: How AI Is Replacing the Nation-State Back Office
Dream Research Team
August 18, 2026

What gives state intelligence operations their edge isn't technical sophistication — it's a large specialized workforce. AI is now replacing that back office.

Inside a Multi-Agent AI Framework Used to Compromise Government Entities in Asia
Dream Research Labs
August 12, 2026

Open-weight models, mature agentic harnesses and cheap compute have put frontier-adjacent intrusion capability within reach of almost any operator.

Dream Joins NVIDIA-Led Open Secure AI Alliance
The Dream Team
July 30, 2026

Dream, the National Sovereign AI company, joined the NVIDIA-led Open Secure AI Alliance alongside Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and CrowdStrike.

Governments Are Not Ready for Autonomous AI Attacks
Amir Becker, Chief Business and Strategy Officer
July 29, 2026

Autonomous cyber operations have crossed from theory into practice. Amir Becker on machine-speed offense, attribution collapse, and the case for sovereign AI.

Paying a Full Second for a One-Token Answer
Eytan Buchman
July 27, 2026

Reading a classification label straight from an LLM's logits in one forward pass runs 8-40x faster than generative classification, with no accuracy cost.

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