Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) bzw. Artificial Intelligence (AI) verspricht uns höhere Effizienz, Automatisierung und Autonomie. AI soll sohin unser Leben erleichtern.
AI erleichtert allerdings auch das Leben von Cyberkriminellen, die nach Ansicht von Martin Rösler, Leiter des Leiter des Forward-Looking Threat Research Teams bei Trend Micro, schon immer "early adopter" der neuesten Technologien waren - und AI macht keinen Unterschied.
Auch Cyberkriminelle machen sich AI zu Nutze. Bereits jetzt ist es möglich durch AI z.B CAPTCHA-Abfragen zu durchbrechen, die Funktionalität einer Antivirus Engine vorherzusagen, um Schadsoftware als gutartige Applikationen zu tarnen, und "Passwort Guessing Tools" zu trainieren.
Europol, UNICRI und Trend Micro beschreiben in einem gemeinsamen Bericht die aktuellen und zukünftigen Gefahren durch AI und Empfehlungen, um diese Risiken zu reduzieren.
Der Bericht ist hier abrufbar: https://www.europol.europa.eu/publications-documents/malicious-uses-and-abuses-of-artificial-intelligence
The report concludes that cybercriminals will leverage AI both as an attack vector and an attack surface. Deep fakes are currently the best-known use of AI as an attack vector. However, the report warns that new screening technology will be needed in the future to mitigate the risk of disinformation campaigns and extortion, as well as threats that target AI data sets. For example, AI could be used to support: convincing social engineering attacks at scale; document-scraping malware to make attacks more efficient; evasion of image recognition and voice biometrics; ransomware attacks, through intelligent targeting and evasion; data pollution, by identifying blind spots in detection rules. “As AI applications start to make a major real-world impact, it’s becoming clear that this will be a fundamental technology for our future,” said Irakli Beridze, Head of the Centre for AI and Robotics at UNICRI. “However, just as the benefits to society of AI are very real, so is the threat of malicious use. We’re honoured to stand with Europol and Trend Micro to shine a light on the dark side of AI and stimulate further discussion on this important topic.” The paper also warns that AI systems are being developed to enhance the effectiveness of malware and to disrupt anti-malware and facial recognition systems.
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