Artificial Intelligence powered malware - A Smart virus
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The document discusses the emergence of artificial intelligence-powered malware, termed as 'smart viruses,' which can mimic human communication and evade detection by modifying their signatures. It highlights the potential risks and implications for cybersecurity, including sophisticated ransomware attacks that could leverage coordinated actions across networks and target critical infrastructure. It also mentions concerns regarding the evolving nature of malware and the arms race between hackers and security firms as AI becomes more sophisticated.
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Artificial Intelligence powered malware - A Smart virus
- 1. Artificial Intelligence Computer Virus Artificial intelligence-powered malware is coming â called the âsmart virusâ. A.I. Apocalypse
- 2. It all looks normal, but! The entire email was actuallywritten by a piece of smart malware mimicking the client's email mannerisms, with a virus attachedto the map. Instead an artificialIntelligence(AI) activatedmalware has been working hard to create a trustworthy email seemingly coming from a trustworthy source.
- 3. Artificial intelligence implemented in computer virus â A smart virus Create an ArtificiallyIntelligent(AI) Computer virus , which can modify its signature to avoiddetection from an Anti Virus software. A computer virus which can stop all its infectiousactivities and go into the state of incubationwhen a full system scan is going on through an Anti Virus scan. What is the possibilityof seeing such computer viruses in near future? A computer virus can use AI, and the question we ask ourselves would it allow it to evade detection for very long? The closest to a AI powered virus we have now is the polymorphictype of virus, but virus scanners use heuristics methods to detect these. A virus which can detect when a system scan is going on doesn't require AI. If a virus has taken control of your system, it can be programmed to detect and avoidtypicalvirus scanners.
- 4. Artificial intelligence implemented in computer virus â A smart virus The problem with a really-goodAI powered virus is that it requires tons of top-end hardware to run effectively. However, computerviruses need to be lightweightand nimble little pieces of code that slip into and out of systems and avoid detection. They can't really command the necessary resources to be truly smart. A smart virus could take over a whole network of computers, like a botnet does now. It could use the intelligenceof the whole network to prevent the takeover of any one of its hosts. Theoreticallythat could work, at least for a while, under present- day conditions. If such an attackwere ever developed,a new defense would have to be developedfor it.
- 5. The arms race between hackers and security firms Artificial intelligencebecomes more and more sophisticatedand it will inevitablyfind its way into malware. Potentiallydisastrousresults for the businesses and individuals that hackers target. Hackers will compete with AI-driven defense systems for networks and computers within it. Defenses created with an "immune system" for users that learnshow businesses operate then monitors for potentialirregularities.
- 6. How cybersecurity is going to evolve Today Ransomware is endemic. It's a type of malware that encrypts everythingon the victim's computer or network,then demands a bitcoin ransom to decrypt it. If they don't payup in a set timeframe,the data is lost for good. Near future and maybe alreadytoday. AI-infused ransomware will acceleratethe risks these malware attacks make. Self-organizingmalware made to inflict maximumdamage, and going after new, even more lucrative targets. Future Malware will perform coordinatedaction.Ransomware will be layingwaiting until it's spread across a number of areas of the network before it suddenly takes action. Malware will cause extortionofassets as well as data.Factoryequipment, MRI scanners in hospitals,retail equipmentwill be kept hostages. Equipment and data you would payto haveback online because it is business critical. Data hostage is one thingas you can havebeen fortunate enough having backed up, but if your equipment stops workingthen you're business can be stopped,oreven lives can be in jeopardy.Imagine the power grid to be kept hostage bya AI activated ransomware.
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- 8. AI Powered Emails or correspondence You have got something on you laptop that can read all your emails, reads your messages, can read your calendar, and then sends people messages in the same communication style you use with them. You will get an email from what looks to be a friend or colleague in a style and manner as you are used to get. Attached to this email there is attached r included in the email a map of a location of where to meet for a meeting or event. Because the AI powered malware can see in your calendar that we're due to meet up for a meeting or event. And you'd open it, because it'd be relevant, it'd be contextual, but the map would have a malware payload included in it. It is a sophisticated version of a "CFO email" scam or "trust attackâ, where the scammer, purporting to be a company employee, sends an email to the target asking them to make a money transfer.
- 9. MALWARE WILL LEARN TO MIMIC PEOPLE YOU KNOW Using recurring neural networks, AI software is taught to mimic writing styles. Malwarewill be able to look through your correspondence, learn how you communicate, and then mimic you in order to infect other targets.
- 10. Destructive hacks âą In December 2015, a Ukrainianpower stationwas knocked offline by an unprecedentedhack. âą The power cut was caused by a type of hacking known as "spear- phishingâ. âą The attackcaused a blackout for 80,000 customers of western Ukraine's Prykarpattyaoblenergoutility. âą DHS said the "Black Energy Malware"used in the attack appearsto have infected Ukraine's systems via a corrupted Microsoft Word attachment. âą The same code was detected in 2014 within systems at US facilities but there was no known successful disruption to the US grid.
- 11. Destructive hacks âą OilRig Malware Campaigns âą In May2016 the firstOilRig campaign wasregistered and analyzed. âą The group behindthe OilRig campaign continuesto leverage spear-phishingemails with malicious MicrosoftExcel documentsto compromisevictims. âą When the users.xls file is executed and macrosare enabled, the victim is presented with a decoy document. âą Anemail sequence was sent to a Turkish governmentorganizationusing a lure of purportednew portal logins foran airlineâs website. âą This same documentcontent wasused withHelminth samplestargeting government organizationsin multiple nations. âą Tracked a numberof changesto the malware usedby the actors responsible for OilRig forvarious victims and purposes. âą The attackers shifted fromthe update.vbsvariantof their malware in late May 2016 to use the fireeye.vbs variant.More recently, the upd.vbsvariantwasdiscovered, which appearsto be an actively developed copy. âą The attackers using the Helminth and Clayslide malware families continue to target varioushigh value companiesand organizationsacrossthe globe usingtheir customizedmalware. âą While the malware deployed is not terribly sophisticated,it uses techniquessuch as DNScommandand control (C2) thatallows it to stay under the radar at many establishments.
- 12. Corporate stealth hacks âą To perform real harm to an energy company you would have your self-hunting, self- targeting malware go in to their systems and then start to change the geological and geophysical data on which they make their decisions where they're going explore, exploit or produce. Over a longer period of time you will make their performance going down as their discovery rate or production rate is falling, as wells are coming up dry in a more frequent rate than they used to do. This would create serious harm to their business in a way they're much less likely to notice and be able to respond to before the harm is done.
- 13. Internet of Things (IoT) Targets The attacksof the future could likely be in their IoT sensors, their submarines, their scanning equipment that's collecting [the data] in the first place. Good luck finding those attacks. Artificial intelligence revolution becomes ever-more advanced and ever-more accessible and it is, inevitably, going to be used for ill.
- 14. Timeframe of AI powered Malware Within the next 12 months it would be possible to train a neural network that would be smart enough to carry out a trust attack in a rudimentaryway. If you look at the progress people like Google DeepMindare making on naturalspeech and language tools, it's in the next couple of years when the more sophisticatedAI powered malware attacks.
- 15. The evolutionary virus Leon creates is based on biological principles Leon Tsarev is a high school student set on getting into a greatcollege program, untilhis uncle, a member of the Russian mob, coerces him into developing a new computer virus for the mobâs botnet - the slave army of computersthey used to commit digital crimes. The virus continues to evolve, developing intelligence, communication, and finally an entire civilization. All the worldâs computers are infected. Everything from cars to payment systems and, of course, computers and smart phones stop functioning, and with them go essential functions including emergency services, transportation,and the food supply. Billionsmay die.
- 16. Ramifications of a powerful supercomputer. The story of the novellaexploresthe nature of humandesire andthe uses and abuses of technology inthe satisfactionof desire. The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect by Roger Williams An online novel from 1994. Warning: The book is very graphicallyviolent and sexual, especially in earlier chapters. It deals with the ramifications of a powerful, super intelligent supercomputer that discovers a method of rewriting the "BIOS" of reality while studying a little-known quirk of quantum physics discovered during the prototyping of its own specialized processors, ultimately heralding a technological singularity. After remaining unpublished for years, the novel was published online in 2002, hosted byKuro5hin. Williams later published a print edition via print-on-demand publisher Lulu. One reviewer called the novel "a well- written and very creative, if flawed, piece of work" and ranked it as one of the more important works of fiction to deal with the idea of a technological singularity.
- 17. AI powered malware Artificial intelligencebased viruses with Evolutionarycode embedded into the malware, and malware that detects the hard drives contents and imitates other programs to evade detection do exist. Such viruses do exist, but not in the open. There are research papers that mention such approaches to malware, but for academic purposes only. There is even a research paper discussing a p2p based botnet, that uses AI to evolve its p2p topology, to prevent detection of the source, to maximize efficiency, and to make the network robust against attack.
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