Cybercrooks harness AI to good advantage
Hyderabad: Artificial Intelligence is getting good at doing bad things swiftly, evident from the alerts put out by leading cybersecurity companies that attackers won’t just target AI systems but will create AI techniques themselves to amplify their own criminal activities. Experts noted that attackers will be employing AI to avoid detection by security software and will even automate target selection, and check infected environments before deploying later stages and avoiding detection. Chief technology officer, Symantec, Mr Hugh Thompson, said, “In some ways, the emergence of critical AI systems as attack targets will start to mirror the sequence seen 20 years ago with the internet, which rapidly drew the attention of cybercriminals and hackers, especially following the explosion of internet-based eCommerce. The fragility of some AI technologies will become a growing concern in 2019.” These toolkits are available for sale online, making it relatively easy for attackers to generate new threats and give even petty criminals the ability to launch sophisticated targeted attacks. McAfee chief scientist Raj Samani said, “In 2018, we witnessed even greater collaboration among cybercriminals through underground alliances.
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