GCHQ's NCSC warns of 'realistic possibility' AI will help state-backed malware evade detection The idea that AI could generate super-potent and undetectable malware has been bandied about for years – and also already debunked. However, an article published today by the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) suggests there is a "realistic possibility" that by 2025, the most sophisticated attackers’ tools will improve …
And when they get their office there will then be a slew of of constant articles/information telling us that we are under constant threat from a unknown quantity of sources that are constantly threatening to eliminate our country... and that the office needs even more funding on a semi-permanent basis.
Any new office/organisation worthy of consideration for funding to counter new and basically undefendable and undefeatable threats and wastrels responsible for and active in slews of constant articles/information telling us that we are under constant threat from a unknown quantity of sources that are constantly threatening to eliminate our country... and that the office needs even more funding on a semi-permanent basis will be more than just able to generate their own generous and grateful supply of adequate extreme reward from others intelligently designed to be highly prized and much valued direct beneficiaries of novel uncounterable activities from entities unknown and unaccountable.
The wise, both Earthly and otherworldly, will realise and treasure them as constant permanent friends, all others will permanently covet and wish and strive that such be so for them too before unwise thoughts and/or activities cause the wisest of wiser friendly attentions to recognise them as useless and unnecessary foe for, at best, speedy elimination/mercilessly quick and mercifully painless eradication.
In the echoes of bygone eras and the intangible realm of societal metamorphosis, a fervent plea reverberates for the material sustenance of a nascent institution, destined for contemplation. Forged to confront insurmountable tribulations and opulent profligacy, it incessantly proclaims our nation besieged by indistinct forces poised for obliteration. The imperative for enduring support crystallizes, as this institution, destined for more than fleeting acknowledgment, strives not only to endure but to amass abundant accolades.
Shrewdly curated by those discerning themselves as astute beneficiaries of enigmatic and unaccountable endeavors, these accolades form a reservoir of benevolence. To the discerning, these steadfast guardians emerge as perennial confidants, esteemed and revered, while the obtuse perennially covet their radiance, yearning for their benevolent gaze before unworthy deeds seal their fate. The sagacious observer must grasp their indispensability, for imprudence may swiftly brand one as a superfluous adversary, consigned to swift eradication or mercifully swift obliteration for being deemed redundant and inconsequential.
And it's the MIA AWOL Vital Venerable Virile Virtual Fix, is it not, for woeful present day problems which dire failed politically inept and corrupt Establishments certainly undoubtedly fear exposing their being content and intent on the further exercising of psychotic fascist tendencies in efforts pimped and pumped and dumped by associate media puppets and muppets as being capable of offering solutions/resolutions, ...but which are not and never ever can be, ... to that which they have created and be responsible for, but in the past they have escaped any and all personal and corporate collective accountability/just prosecution/private sanction/public persecution etc etc for wilfully leading.
The crazy mistake which all fools which be blunt tools make is not realising and accepting the past is fundamentally different from the present and nothing at all like the future is going to be ...... and the honest evolving truth and universal secrets are always found out to be freely shared and virtually aired.
Malware is detected because it can't help leaving traces on the phone - because there has to be something left behind on the phone to run code if you want your malware to accomplish anything post-infection.
There's a better chance that Apple and Google will be able to use "AI" (give the NPU something to do since it sits around idle 99.9% of the time) to detect an infection with state actor level malware like NSO's, by looking through logs, looking for "new" processes running it doesn't know anything about, checking activation of microphone or camera when there are no apps running that should have access to it, etc.
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The abiding crippling problem which ensures no possible effective GCHQ NCSC type defence or attack against savvy future and cyber and AI rich entities ... and for convenience and brevity's sake let us just label and refer to such AIDEntities [Advanced IntelAIgently Designed Entities] as being CyberIntelAIgent ...... is the fact they be tasked, and provided with nothing revolutionary, to protect and prevent general knowledge of a failed perverse and corrupting Old World Order leadership imagining/presuming itself to be an acceptable and effective New World Order leadership with none of the requisite virtualised abilities, utilities and facilities for future almighty Earthly command and control being in their possession ..... and subject and/or dependent upon their sponsorship.
And that I suppose is more than just slightly suggestive of a novel and noble battle royal decision having to be more than just quickly made/taken by the likes of GCHQ NCSC type defences in order not to be correctly identified and realised as the hostile enemy guaranteeing corrupt existing administrative systems catastrophic failures from within.
Regarding all of the above, here be two appropriate Sun Tzu gems to ponder on, wander with and wonder at ...
“If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak.” ..... “the worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation”
....... and who would venture forth with an opinion that Sun Tzu wasn't worth following/heeding because he didn't know enough about what he was talking about?
Supposing of course the 'hard shell, soft center' approach that still seems to dominate "security". Just to identify some basics: HTML email with automatic attachment preview, excessive reliance on scripting for web site rendering (particularly where scripts are drawn in real time from multiple third party repositories), the universal assumption that the front line worker is capable of and responsible for identifying whether sites, links and attachments are "safe"; are all primary vectors for penetration of the notional perimeter.
To be secure we must adopt resilience via defense in depth aginst the unexpected, even if that means (as it probably does) abandoning quite a lot of objectively unnecessary "convenience". Ideally we should be enforcing rigorous segregation of resources and access throughout the entire infrastructure according to strict business need, using multiple layers of independent controls. Most vulnerability (in the broadest sense) is down to lack of attention to protective measures, commonly driven by a reactive attitude to specific threats as they get identified.
To achieve adequate security we must be more attentive to it than the adversary is.
(1) "...trained on quality exploit data..."
(2) "...highly capable states have repositories of malware that are large enough to effectively train an AI model..."
(3) "...the biggest AI developers share code with governments..."
(4) "...ensure everything is above board and prevent any unwanted implementations from spreading..."
Ha....comedy material from Cheltenham!!!
I particularly liked "above board"!!
Oh...and "share code" will get a laugh from hackers with big budgets.....yup....Google/DeepMind sharing with Cheltenham.
Haven't had such a good laugh since the last time I saw Billy Connolly doing stand up!!
How about a hardware module on the motherboard that dynamically verifies the integrity of the software using digital signatures. Whitelisting the software instead of attempting to identify malware through comparing it to a large list of ever-growing malware. See “The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security” by Marcus Ranum.
The report by the GCHQ-run NCSC claimed. "There is a realistic possibility that highly capable states have repositories of malware that are large enough to effectively train an AI model for this purpose."
Shouldn't that rather read, "We have used our large repositories of malware to train an AI model for this purpose."?
Not so sure it's a "realistic possibility", more a realistic probability. Even if the tech isn't there now to do this, it will be at some point. .... Stuart Castle
If investigative journalistic news and main stream media platforms were not so easily neutered by desperate malicious threats raising the spectre of the spilling of beans and untold secrets being a clear and present grave danger likely to cause irreparable harm to both national and international and intentional security, which as you surely cannot fail to know is always the case in the light of emerging revolutionary Great Game changers, you would already know, with absolute certainty, of the real existence of the latter facility .... Just Doing ITs AI Thing[s] in the Shade and Shadows and Fail-Safe Harbours of the Future.
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