Microsoft Unveils OpenAI-Based Chat Tools for Fighting Cyberattacks (bloomberg.com) 14
Microsoft, extending a frenzy of artificial intelligence software releases, is introducing new chat tools that can help cybersecurity teams ward off hacks and clean up after an attack. From a report: The latest of Microsoft's AI assistant tools -- the software giant likes to call them Copilots -- uses OpenAI's new GPT-4 language system and data specific to the security field, the company said Tuesday. The idea is to help security workers more quickly see connections between various parts of a hack, such as a suspicious email, malicious software file or the parts of the system that were compromised. Microsoft and other security software companies have been using machine-learning techniques to root out suspicious behavior and spot vulnerabilities for several years. But the newest AI technologies allow for faster analysis and add the ability to use plain English questions, making it easier for employees who may not be experts in security or AI. That's important because there's a shortage of workers with these skills, said Vasu Jakkal, Microsoft's vice president for security, compliance, identity and privacy. Hackers, meanwhile, have only gotten faster.
Text viruses (Score:3)
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It opens up a new attack vector: poisoning the data used to train the AI.
Exactly! I think it might be something similar in concept to how people gamed keywords on the web.
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It opens up a new attack vector: poisoning the data used to train the AI.
That attack vector did already exist before. And it is a rather massive problem. This bad idea by Microsoft makes investigating this attack vector more interesting though and that is a problem all by itself.
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Probably better than the average cybersecurity "professional".
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You do not want to get an "average" one when you are under attack or actually trying to defend yourself. The "average" ones (and the many, many below average ones) are only a good choice if you want to create the illusion of doing something.
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You fell for the delusion that "new" = "good". That is not the case.
Yeah, _that_ will help... (Score:3)
What it will do is delay a competent response even further, and hence increase the damage done. Just another crappy product from MS that does harm its customers. In other words, business as usual at Microsoft.
GPT-4 to filter phishing emails (Score:2)
Maybe this is being done already, but it seems like the AI could scan all incoming emails for malicious attachments and links. That stuff could be opened in a sandbox and examined for bad behavior.