HC3 TLP Clear Analyst Note: Artificial Intelligence and Its Current Potential to Aid in Malware Development

Executive Summary

Artificial intelligence (AI) has now evolved to a point where it can be effectively used by threat actors to develop malware and phishing lures. While the use of AI is still very limited and requires a sophisticated user to make it effective, once this technology becomes more user-friendly, there will be a major paradigm shift in the development of malware. One of the key factors making AI particularly dangerous for the healthcare sector is the ability of a threat actor to use AI to easily and quickly customize attacks against the healthcare sector.

Report

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has most notably been applied to the defensive side of cybersecurity. It has been used to detect threats, vulnerabilities and active attacks, and to automate security tasks. However, because of its known defensive use and because threat actors in cyberspace are known to be highly creative and well-resourced, concerns have been raised in the cybersecurity community about the potential for artificial intelligence to be used for the development of malware.

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