"Scientists Create New Method to Kill Cyberattacks in Less Than a Second"

Researchers at Cardiff University have developed a new method for automatically detecting and killing cyberattacks on laptops, desktops, and smart devices in less than a second. The method, which uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in a novel way, has been found to successfully protect up to 92 percent of files on a computer from being corrupted, with malware removal taking only 0.3 seconds on average. According to the researchers, this is the first demonstration of a system that can both detect and wipe out malware in real-time. The new approach, developed in collaboration with Airbus, is based on monitoring and predicting malware behavior rather than more standard antivirus methods that analyze how malware looks. It is feasible to rapidly predict how malware will behave further down the line in less than a second by training computers to execute simulations on specific pieces of malware. When a piece of the malware is flagged, the next step is to remove it, which is where the new research comes in. To test the novel detection system, the researchers set up a virtual computing environment to mimic a number of regularly used laptops, each of which could run up to 35 programs at once to simulate usual behavior. Thousands of malware samples were then used to test the AI-based detection approach. This article continues to discuss the team's new method capable of automatically detecting and killing malware in under a second.

Cardiff University reports "Scientists Create New Method to Kill Cyberattacks in Less Than a Second"