"Research Symposium Highlights Innovations in Cybersecurity and AI"
The Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences (KFSCIS) Research Symposium featured innovations in cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence (AI), data science, federated learning, and more. Maryna Veksler, Harun Oz, and Mahshad Shariatnasab are three KFSCIS Ph.D. students who received top honors at the symposium for their work in cybersecurity and AI. Oz presented research on a newly discovered attack vector that may increase the risk of ransomware attacks. They studied a browser-based ransomware, demonstrating its ability to encrypt user files directly from the browser using the FSA Application Programming Interface (API) and WebAssembly technologies. The team's analysis shows that the ransomware can encrypt the victim's local files, including cloud-integrated directories, external storage devices, and network-shared folders, despite access limitations set by the API. Current defense solutions are inadequate in the face of this new threat. Oz and his team proposed three possible defense solutions to address this new attack vector. This article continues to discuss the cybersecurity and AI innovations highlighted at the KFSCIS Research Symposium.
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