{"id":868604,"date":"2024-10-21T10:38:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T05:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=868604"},"modified":"2024-10-21T10:38:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T05:08:43","slug":"ai-powered-malware-emerges-as-new-threat-in-cybersecurity-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/21\/ai-powered-malware-emerges-as-new-threat-in-cybersecurity-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-powered malware emerges as new threat in cybersecurity landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to create sophisticated malware, according to Check Point Software Technologies&#8217; Global Threat Index for September 2024. The report reveals a growing trend of AI-assisted malware development, with AsyncRAT ranking 10th among the most prevalent malware.<br \/>\nResearchers discovered that threat actors likely used AI to develop a script delivering AsyncRAT malware through HTML smuggling.<br \/>\nThis method involves sending a password-protected ZIP file containing malicious VBScript code to initiate an infection chain on the victim&#8217;s device. The well-structured and commented code suggested AI involvement in its creation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to create sophisticated malware, according to Check Point Software Technologies&#8217; Global Threat Index for September 2024. The report reveals a growing trend of AI-assisted malware development, with AsyncRAT ranking 10th among the most prevalent malware. Researchers discovered that threat actors likely used AI to develop a script delivering AsyncRAT malware through HTML smuggling. This method involves sending a password-protected ZIP file containing malicious VBScript code to initiate an infection chain on the victim&#8217;s device. The well-structured and commented code suggested AI involvement in its creation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}