Detecting Avalanche Effect in Adversarial Settings: Spotting the Encryption Loops in Ransomware

Spotting encryption loops in binary-only ransomware is a critical reverse engineering task. Since the existence of avalanche effect, an intrinsic characteristic of any secure encryption algorithms, is unavoidable during a victim data encryption attack, it is a very promising direction to spot...

Research on AI in Adversarial Settings

New research: “Achilles Heels for AGI/ASI via Decision Theoretic Adversaries": As progress in AI continues to advance, it is important to know how advanced systems will make choices and in what ways they may fail. Machines can already outsmart humans in some domains, and understanding how to safe...

The AI’ker’s Guide to the (cybersecurity) Galaxy

As a security veteran I find myself from time to time having to explain to newbies the importance of adopting a ‘hacker’s way of thinking’, and the difference between hacker’s and builder’s thinking. If you can’t think like an attacker, how are you going to build solutions to defend against them?...