Cyber Attackers Are Winning With AI
Cyber Attackers Are Winning With AI
January 29, 2018
BGU’s top cyber security researchers addressed the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, January 23, 2018. They were one of only two Israeli delegations presenting at the high-profile event.
Prof. Bracha Shapira
The Jerusalem Post – With the artificial intelligence cyber-hacking arms race already moving at a break-neck speed, BGU experts warn that cyber defense can waste no time in playing catch-up.
In order “to defend, you must find all of the holes,” and plug them, whereas artificial intelligence cyber attackers “just need to find one hole,” says Prof. Bracha Shapira, vice dean for research in the Faculty of Engineering Sciences and the Carole Weinstein Chair in Software and Information Systems Engineering.
Prof. Lior Rokach; Prof. Yuval Elvici; Prof. Bracha Shapira; and Oleg Brodt, director of research and development for Cyber@BGU
“Today, the attacker conducts an AI-based detection analysis in a lab environment in order to understand whether the malicious code will be detected by an anti-malware tool,” says BGU’s Prof. Yuval Elovici, director of the Deutsche Telekom Innovation Labs@BGU and BGU’s Cyber Security Research Center.
“AI tests the code vis-à-vis in every possible detection engine, and automatically re-crafts it, so it will remain undetected by existing tools and methods.
“AI is also able to assist the attacker in achieving the attack goals more quickly and more efficiently,” says Prof. Elovici.
“When the attacker is after specific information… once he has penetrated the organization and gained access to the system, he will need to scan it and locate the required information.
“Since the target system may have a huge amount of data, locating the specific files may require a lot of time. AI is able to automatically scan the machine and prioritize the documents to be leaked,” Prof. Elovici adds.
On the cyber defense side of the equation, AI can also be used to deter and stop cyber attacks by detecting the pattern of malicious programs.
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