{"id":80786,"date":"2022-05-16T21:23:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T01:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=80786"},"modified":"2022-05-16T21:23:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T01:23:22","slug":"ransomware-is-already-out-of-control-ai-powered-ransomware-could-be-terrifying-alspach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/05\/16\/ransomware-is-already-out-of-control-ai-powered-ransomware-could-be-terrifying-alspach\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware is already out of control. AI-powered ransomware could be ‘terrifying.’ [Alspach]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ransomware is already out of control. AI-powered ransomware could be ‘terrifying.’<\/strong> <\/a>— from protocol.com by Kyle Alspach
\nHiring AI experts to automate ransomware could be the next step for well-endowed ransomware groups that are seeking to scale up their attacks.<\/em><\/p>\n

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In the perpetual battle between cybercriminals and defenders, the latter have always had one largely unchallenged advantage: The use of AI and machine learning allows them to automate a lot of what they do, especially around detecting and responding to attacks. This leg-up hasn’t been nearly enough to keep ransomware at bay, but it has still been far more than what cybercriminals have ever been able to muster in terms of AI and automation.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because deploying AI-powered ransomware would require AI expertise. And the ransomware gangs don\u2019t have it. At least not yet.<\/p>\n

But given the wealth accumulated by a number of ransomware gangs in recent years, it may not be long before attackers do bring aboard AI experts of their own, prominent cybersecurity authority Mikko Hypp\u00f6nen said.<\/p>\n

Also re: AI, see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Nuance partners with The Academy to launch The AI Collaborative<\/strong><\/a> — from artificialintelligence-news.com by Ryan Daws<\/p>\n

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Nuance\u00a0has partnered with\u00a0The Health Management Academy\u00a0(The Academy) to launch The AI Collaborative, an industry group focused on advancing healthcare using artificial intelligence and machine learning.<\/p>\n

Nuance became a household name for creating the speech engine recognition engine behind Siri. In recent years, the company has put a strong focus on AI solutions for healthcare and is now a full-service partner of 77 percent of US hospitals and is trusted by over 500,000 physicians daily.<\/p>\n

Inflection AI, led by LinkedIn and DeepMind co-founders, raises $225M to transform computer-human interactions<\/strong><\/a> — from techcrunch.com by Kyle Wiggers<\/p>\n

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Inflection AI, the machine learning startup headed by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and founding DeepMind member Mustafa Suleyman, has secured $225 million in equity financing, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
\n…
\n\u201c[Programming languages, mice, and other interfaces] are ways we simplify our ideas and reduce their complexity and in some ways their creativity and their uniqueness in order to get a machine to do something,\u201d Suleyman told the publication. \u201cIt feels like we\u2019re on the cusp of being able to generate language to pretty much human-level performance. It opens up a whole new suite of things that we can do in the product space.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ransomware is already out of control. AI-powered ransomware could be ‘terrifying.’ — from protocol.com by Kyle Alspach Hiring AI experts to automate ransomware could be the next step for well-endowed ransomware groups that are seeking to scale up their attacks. Excerpt: In the perpetual battle between cybercriminals and defenders, the latter have always had one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,45,210,37,359,391,454,156,312,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-computer-science","category-emerging-technologies","category-future","category-health","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-usability","category-user-experience-ux","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80786"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80796,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80786\/revisions\/80796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}