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How AI is Changing the Malware Landscape

When: 27 March, 2024 | 5:30 PM SGT

Last April 2023 we implemented in VirusTotal several AI engines to assist malware analysis. We learnt many things, from analyzing AI-generated malware to different AI-evasion techniques. We found that AIs interpret malicious code differently than AVs, offering a new angle for malware detection but also showing strong and weak points, like being easily fooled by comments in malicious code. 

Vicente Diaz

Threat Intelligence Strategist,
VirusTotal,
Google

Vicente is a specialist in Threat Intelligence and Threat Hunting. He works in the VirusTotal team in Google as Threat Intelligence Strategist. He holds a degree in Computer Science and an MsC in Artificial Intelligence. He was e-crime manager in S21sec for 5 years and deputy director for EU in Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis team for almost 10 years, where he was co-creator and responsible for the APT Intelligence Reporting service.

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