Can ransomware turn machines against us? [Research Saturday]

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🗓️ 4 February 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Tom Bonner and Eoin Wickens from HiddenLayer's SAI Team to discuss their research on weaponizing machine learning models with ransomware. Researchers at HiddenLayer’s SAI Team have developed a proof-of-concept attack for surreptitiously deploying malware, such as ransomware or Cobalt Strike Beacon, via machine learning models. The attack uses a technique currently undetected by many cybersecurity vendors and can serve as a launchpad for lateral movement, deployment of additional malware, or the theft of highly sensitive data. In this research the team raising awareness by demonstrate how easily an adversary can deploy malware through a pre-trained ML model. The research can be found here: WEAPONIZING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS WITH RANSOMWARE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:27.0	I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking down the threats and vulnerabilities,
1:34.1	solving some of the hard problems of protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.
1:39.7	Thanks for joining us. So we've been investigating the sort of machine learning attack surface for some time now and we realized quite
1:55.2	early on that there was some low-hanging fruit in terms of being able to execute
2:01.1	code through machine learning models.
2:04.0	Joining us this week are Tom Bonner and Owen Wickins.
2:07.4	They're from Hidden Layers, SIA team,
2:09.9	the Synaptic Adversarial Intelligence Team.
2:13.0	The research we're discussing today is titled,
2:15.0	weaponizing machine learning models and yeah.
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