Machine learning and the fight against ransomware

Ransomware is now everywhere. The number of emails containing ransomware rose 6,000 percent since 2015, and in 2016, 40 percent of all spam emails had one of these malicious programs hidden within, according to IBM. Other reports highlight the sophistication of ransomware nowadays and it's...

Combating a spate of Java malware with machine learning in real-time

In recent weeks, we have seen a surge in emails carrying fresh malicious Java .jar malware that use new techniques to evade antivirus protection. But with our research team’s automated expert systems and machine learning models, Windows 10 PCs get real-time protection against these latest threats...

Five Reasons Why I Joined Wallarm

By Johan Nordstrom The question of “what made you change jobs?” may be old, but the answer with my move to Wallarm is new and clear. I have a vision how to address the dynamic threat landscape of today and Wallarm’s innovative approach to security is in line with these ideas. In my 30 years caree...

Kong and Wallarm Partner Up to Boost Microservices API Security

Wallarm has partnered with Mashape to provide the microservices community with API security. Mashape enterprise customers who use Kong API gateway can now quickly add API security protection without change in Kong user’s deployment. Read more about Kong and Wallarm partnership in this blog. Today...

Tech support scams persist with increasingly crafty techniques

Note: Our Tech support scams FAQ page has the latest info on this type of threat, including scammer tactics, fake error messages, and the latest scammer hotlines. You can also read our latest blog, New tech support scam launches communication or phone call app. Millions of users continue to...

Incident Detection and Investigation - How Math Helps But Is Not Enough

I love math. I am even going to own up to having been a "mathlete" and looking forward to the annual UVM Math Contest in high school. I pursued a degree in engineering, so I can now more accurately say that I love applied mathematics, which have a much different goal than pure mathematics. Taking...

Zimperium Program Buys Exploits for Patched Mobile Vulnerabilities

Mobile security company Zimperium said Tuesday that it will start buying exploits, but in a departure from most other programs, it will not be buying zero-days. The company’s N-Days Exploit Acquisition Program will pay researchers from a pool of $1.5 million for exploits targeting vulnerabilities...

Microsoft Shares Telemetry Data Collected from Windows 10 Users with 3rd-Party

Cyber security is a major challenge in today's world, as cyber attacks have become more automated and difficult to detect, where traditional cyber security practices and systems are no longer sufficient to protect businesses, governments, and other organizations. In past few years, Artificial...

Microsoft Bolsters Ransomware Protection in Windows 10

Microsoft says it hardened its ransomware defenses in Windows 10 Anniversary Update in the face of skyrocketing infection rates and a doubling in the number ransomware variants released into the wild over the past 12 months. In a whitepaper PDF released last week, Microsoft explained its latest...

Skyping And Typing Threatens Privacy

Multitasking while on a work-related Skype call may be good for productivity, but perhaps not so much for privacy. Typing while using Skype or over other Voice over Internet Protocol VoIP services presents an opportunity for an attacker to record the conversation, separate out the emanations from...

CERT Basic Fuzzing Framework: BFF

CERT Basic Fuzzing Framework The CERT Basic Fuzzing Framework BFF is a software testing tool that finds defects in applications that run on the Linux and Mac OS X platforms. BFF performs mutational fuzzing on software that consumes file input. Mutational fuzzing is the act of taking well-formed...

High Precision WiFi Indoor Positioning Framework: FIND

High Precision WiFi Indoor Positioning Framework The Framework for Internal Navigation and Discovery FIND allows you to use your Android smartphone or WiFi-enabled computer laptop or Raspberry Pi or etc. to determine your position within your home or office. You can easily use this system in plac...

Hey, Poker Face — This Wi-Fi Router Can Read Your Emotions

Are you good at hiding your feelings? No issues, your Wi-Fi router may soon be able to tell how you feel, even if you have a good poker face. A team of researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory CSAIL have developed a device that can measure human inner emotional...

Metasploit for Machine Learning: Deep-Pwning

Deep-pwning is a lightweight framework for experimenting with machine learning models with the goal of evaluating their robustness against a motivated adversary. Note that deep-pwning in its current state is no where close to maturity or completion. It is meant to be experimented with, expanded...

Protocol Learning and Stateful Fuzzing: Pulsar

Pulsar is a network fuzzer with automatic protocol learning and simulation capabilites. The tool allows to model a protocol through machine learning techniques, such as clustering and hidden Markov models. These models can be used to simulate communication between Pulsar and a real client or serv...

MIT builds Artificial Intelligence system that can detect 85% of Cyber Attacks

In Brief What if we could Predict when a cyber attack is going to occur before it actually happens and prevent it? Isn't it revolutionary idea for Internet Security? Security researchers at MIT have developed a new Artificial Intelligence-based cyber security platform, called 'AI2,' which has the...

Microsoft's Artificial Intelligence Tay Became a 'Racist Nazi' in less than 24 Hours

Tay, Microsoft’s new Artificial Intelligence AI chatbot on Twitter had to be pulled down a day after it launched, following incredibly racist comments and tweets praising Hitler and bashing feminists. Microsoft had launched the Millennial-inspired artificial intelligence chatbot on Wednesday,...

Relational Learning Tutorial

At FireEye, we apply machine learning techniques to a variety of security problems. Malware detection and categorization is a great use of the technology, and we believe that it can also play a role in security challenges that extend beyond malware. In one such R&D effort, the Innovation & Custom...

Machine Learning Linux IPS: Stratosphere

This is the linux version of the Stratosphere IPS, a behavioral-based intrusion detection and prevention system that uses machine learning algorithms to detect malicious behaviors. It is part of a larger suite of programs that include the Stratosphere Windows IPS and the Stratosphere Testing...

NSA’s Top-Secret SKYNET May Be Killing Thousands of Innocent Civilians

So what do you expect from an Artificially intelligent program run by the government intelligence agency? Possibly killing innocent people. The real-life SKYNET, the fictional malevolent artificial intelligence in the Terminator movies, run by the US National Security Agency NSA is a surveillance...