{"id":9817,"date":"2023-11-22T16:16:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T23:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9817"},"modified":"2023-11-04T16:33:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T23:33:42","slug":"realtime-polymorphic-viruses-powered-by-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9817","title":{"rendered":"Realtime Polymorphic Viruses powered by AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"642\" data-attachment-id=\"9819\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=9819\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/11\/image-5.png?fit=1105%2C1108&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1105,1108\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-5\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/11\/image-5.png?fit=640%2C642&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/11\/image-5.png?resize=640%2C642&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/11\/image-5.png?resize=1021%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1021w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/11\/image-5.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/11\/image-5.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/11\/image-5.png?resize=768%2C770&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/11\/image-5.png?resize=269%2C270&amp;ssl=1 269w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/11\/image-5.png?w=1105&amp;ssl=1 1105w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyas.com\/hyas-labs\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hyas.com\/hyas-labs\">HYAS Labs<\/a> demonstrated a proof-of-concept, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven cyberattack that changes its code on the fly and can slip past the latest automated security-detection technology. Called BlackMamba, it exploits a large language model (LLM) to create a &#8220;truly polymorphic&#8221; attack in that every time it executes, it resynthesizes its keylogging capability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AI-powered attacks like this will become more common now as threat actors create polymorphic\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/application-security\/chatgpt-content-safeguards-busted-with-new-jailbreak-trick-\" target=\"_blank\">malware that leverages ChatGPT<\/a>\u00a0and other sophisticated, data-intelligence systems based on LLM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hyas.com\/blog\/blackmamba-using-ai-to-generate-polymorphic-malware\" target=\"_blank\">BlackMamba attack outlined in this blog post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from HYAS Labs demonstrated a proof-of-concept, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven cyberattack that changes its code on the fly and can slip past the latest automated security-detection technology. Called BlackMamba, it exploits a large language model (LLM) to create a &#8220;truly polymorphic&#8221; attack in that every time it executes, it resynthesizes its keylogging capability. AI-powered attacks like this will become more common now as threat actors create polymorphic\u00a0malware that leverages ChatGPT\u00a0and other sophisticated, data-intelligence systems based on LLM Read more about&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9817\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-2yl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9820,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9817\/revisions\/9820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}