Cybersecurity
A year of privacy and protection in the new normal
With AI becoming more and more present in our daily lives, connecting IoT and delivering services, facial recognition systems and the free transfer of data between locations, data privacy is becoming an important issue.
Data localization strategies are rising on the agenda as new laws and regulations place increasing obligations, restrictions, or limitations on the ability to transfer personal data to other countries. Brazil, New Zealand, South Africa, Singapore, China and California all enacted new laws or updates to laws regarding privacy and protection
Reinventing cybersecurity with artificial intelligence
AI solutions can help businesses adapt to an evolving threat landscape that is becoming increasingly complex. Despite significant investments, companies are only just realizing the business benefits of AI, which include but are not limited to solving cybersecurity challenges and creating business resilience.
Putting the AI into Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) in cybersecurity has been touted as the cure all elixir that will swoop in and provide the organisation with smart security and protection on the virtual frontlines.
Industries in the line of fire
The type of industries targeted by cyber attacks has evolved. In 2020 the top three targeted industries are Finance, Manufacturing and Healthcare.
Attacks against manufacturing increased from 7% last year to 22%; healthcare increased from 7% to 17%; and finance is up from 15% to 23%. While healthcare ranked as the 7th most targeted industry in 2019, it is now the 3rd most targeted industry.
AI Wrote Better Phishing Emails Than Humans in a Recent Test | WIRED
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING continues to find its way into unexpected corners. This time, it's phishing emails. In a small study, researchers found that they could use the deep learning language model GPT-3, along with other AI-as-a-service platforms, to significantly lower the barrier to entry for crafting spearphishing campaigns at a massive scale.
Deepfakes in cyberattacks aren’t coming. They’re already here.
In March, the FBI released a report declaring that malicious actors almost certainly will leverage “synthetic content” for cyber and foreign influence operations in the next 12-18 months.
Changing face of malware
Changing face of malware: miners and Trojans replace spyware as most common malware family globally.
Malware continues to evolve and become more diverse with the growth of multi-function malware. The use of worm functionality has increased, miners experienced a surge, ransomware evolved and attackers leveraged a variety of banking and remote access Trojans. Although malware is becoming more commoditized in features and functionality, the use of certain variants of malware against specific industries continues to evolve.
Why AI isn't the only answer to cybersecurity [Q&A]
But are we expecting too much from AI and are companies adopting it just because it's on trend? We spoke to Nadav Arbel, co-founder and CEO of managed SOC platform CYREBRO, to find out more about AI's role and why the human factor is still important.
Top Cybersecurity Attacks and Data Breaches in 2021
Because of the implementation of evolving technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, as well as the greater tactical cooperation among hacker groups and state actors, there is an increase in the number of data breaches and cyber-attacks taking place.
COVID-19 emboldens advanced persistent threat groups to intensify espionage, sabotage and cybercriminal operations
Advanced Persistent threat (APT) groups have increased their activities over the past months - in particular espionage, sabotage and cybercriminal operation. These techniques have often been used to target industries such as education, healthcare, media, travel or communication.
More recently APT techniques were used to target academic institutions involved in COVID-19 vaccine research. The health sector has been facing a rising number of cyberattacks.
Scanning an unsettled and unsettling cyberthreat landscape | Healthcare IT News
AI-based attacks are just one new development hospitals and health systems should be girding for as they bolster their risk mitigation strategies, said experts at HIMSS21 on Monday.
The Role Of Artificial Intelligence
Despite all the promises and brighter outlooks promised by technology, there is an increased threat to cybersecurity that experts are trying to wrap their heads around to plan a solution for. There was a need to introduce a new player into the world of Artificial Intelligence(AI) in cybersecurity as it showcased the understanding of cyber-attacks.
WFH and remote access are magnifying web and applications attacks
Organizations continue to race to make their organizations more virtual, increasing their use of client portals as well as mobile and web-enabled applications.
Application-specific and web-application attacks continued to rise and remained the top types of attacks observed. Application-specific attacks accounted for 35%, and web-application attacks accounted for 32%, resulting in a combined total of 67% of attacks (up from 55% in 2019 and 32% in 2018). The top three detections (application-specific attacks, web-application attacks and reconnaissance activity) accounted for 87% of all activity in 2020.
Unsupervised learning can detect unknown adversarial attacks
There’s growing concern about new security threats that arise from machine learning models becoming an important component of many critical applications. At the top of the list of threats are adversarial attacks, data samples that have been inconspicuously modified to manipulate the behavior of the targeted machine learning model.
Artificial Intelligence vs Machine Learning in Cybersecurity
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are the next-gen technology used in various fields. With the rise in online threats, it has become essential to include these technologies in cybersecurity. In this post, we will know what roles do AI and ML play in cybersecurity.
Cryptocurrency miners soar to new heights
Coin miners represented a staggering 41% of malware detected in 2020, with XMRig being the most common variant representing nearly 82% of all coin miner activity.
Coin miners accounted for 23% of all malware in the US and 74% in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Miners were the most detected form of malware in the UK and Ireland (UK&I) (87%), Germany (65%) and Benelux (89%).