ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
CYBER ATTACKS
The next major cyber attack could involve Artificial Intelligence Expert Systems. It could even happen very early: At a recent cybersecurity conference, 62 industry professionals, out of the 100 questioned, said they thought the first AI-enhanced cyberattack could come in the next 12 months.
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This doesn’t mean robots will be marching down Your Main Streets. Rather, artificial intelligence will make existing cyber attack efforts – things like to examine theft, denial-of-service attacks, and password cracking – more powerful and more efficient.
This is dangerous enough – this type of hacking can steal money, cause emotional harm and even injure or kill people.
Larger attacks can cut power to hundreds of thousands of people, shut down hospitals and even affect national security.
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Adding AI to today’s cybercrime and cybersecurity world will escalate what is already a rapidly changing arms race between attackers and defenders.
Automated Faster Attacks
Beyond computers’ lack of need for food and sleep – needs that limit human hackers’ efforts, even when they work in teams – automation can make complex attacks much faster and more effective.
To date, the effects of automation have been limited. Very rudimentary AI-like capabilities have for decades given virus programs the ability to self-replicate, spreading from computer to computer without specific human instructions.
In addition, programmers have used their skills to automate different elements of hacking efforts.
Distributed attacks, for example, involve triggering a remote program on several computers or devices to overwhelm servers. The attack that shut down large sections of the internet in October 2016 used this type of approach.
In some cases, common attacks are made available as a script that allows an unsophisticated user to choose a target and launch an attack against it.
Improved adaptation
AI-enabled attackers will also be much faster to react when they encounter resistance, or when cybersecurity experts fix weaknesses that had previously allowed entry by unauthorized users.
The AI may be able to exploit another vulnerability, or start scanning for new ways into the system – without waiting for human instructions.
This could mean that human responders and defenders find themselves unable to keep up with the speed of incoming attacks.
Avoiding the dangers
Operating autonomously could lead AI systems to attack a system it shouldn’t, or cause unexpected damage.
For example, software started by an attacker intending only to steal money might decide to target a hospital computer in a way that causes human injury or death.
The potential for unmanned aerial vehicles to operate autonomously has raised similar questions of the need for humans to make the decisions about targets.
AI Powered Cyber Attacks can Hack Your Facebook, Youtube, Amazon and other accounts as well and can target your money for doing this.
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