Consider what might transpire if malicious hackers began to intensively leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) to discover and exploit software vulnerabilities systematically?
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Cyber-attacks would become much more dangerous and much harder to detect. Currently, human hackers often discover security holes by chance; AI could make their hacking tools faster and the success of their tactics and techniques much more systematic.
Our cybersecurity tools at present are not prepared to handle AI-infused hacking, should targeted network attacks advance in this way. AI can help attackers make their attack code even stealthier than it is today.
Attackers, for obvious reasons, typically seek system access control. One fundamental way they attain access control is by stealthily stealing crypto-keys. Hackers could increasingly leverage AI to make their attack code even more undetectable on computers – and this will advance their capacity to attain deep, permanent access control of critical systems.
If AI-infused hacking gains traction, breaches will happen ever more quickly and automatically; the attack code will be designed to adapt to any version of an OS, CPU or computing device. And this would be a huge game-changer – tilting the advantage to the adversaries in command of such an AI hacking tool.
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This scenario is nearer than we might think or expect. Consider the approach to AI taken by the software firm DeepMind; their system turns technical problems into rules for games — and can deliver extraordinary results even if their d ..
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