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ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking

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Criminals look to machine-learning to mount cyber attacks

November 21, 2017 by Donald Hoxhaj Leave a Comment

https://www.scmagazineuk.com/criminals-look-to-machine-learning-to-mount-cyber-attacks/article/710215/

Criminals look to machine-learning to mount cyber attacks

This article talks about the following: Machine learning, as per McAfee, will be used extensively by cyber attackers in the coming years because of the nature of the system to do multi-fold combinations. In the coming days, the attackers would use ML so easily that they would be able to talk in their native language and still carry out phishing attacks, making it far more difficult to recognize these attacks.

It will be interesting to see how things unfold in the future. With this, most companies have started adopting serverless apps i.e. apps hosted on virtual systems. How can security professionals be warned of such attacks? Are there systems today that can detect phishing packets easily and warn users?

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