AI Enhanced Mutating Malware

 It's not surprising that threat actors are early technology adopters. In this case, AI enhanced malware permits what appears to be on-the-fly code mutation.

Excerpt from Cybersecurity Dive: 

"Five newly discovered malware families — FRUITSHELL, PROMPTFLUX, PROMPTSTEAL, PROMPTLOCK and QUIETVAULT — exhibit novel AI-powered capabilities, Google reported, including the ability to hide their code from security software, create attack capabilities on demand and dynamically generate scripts. 'While still nascent,” Google said, “this represents a significant step toward more autonomous and adaptive malware.'" 

https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/ai-powered-malware-google/804760/ 

Nothing's Funny about this one. 

Back (again) after a long hiatus

Yes, it's been a few busy, but very interesting years. With that said, my practice focus remains  cybersecurity. Pre-incident risk assessments and defensibility guidance, post incident remediation, mitigation, and helping clients work through the legal and administrative morass of incident reporting, notification, and regulatory investigation. As a result, I've becoming more involved with the ramifications of what I call upstream liability exposure for organizations that outsource core and security management to third parties. In most instances that exposure leads to litigation - and I'm here to provide some intelligence as this area of practice ramps up. And artificial intelligence is providing much of the accelerant.

Stay tuned for some less infrequent posts. 

Btw, I highly recommend creating, and fulfilling, bucket list items. A few items to check off for me: I teach a law school cybersecurity workshop as well as an artificial intelligence law and practice workshop for law students who want to be, and remain competitive in the marketplace. Pay is, well, not much, but what a giving back experience. I also wrote a cybersecurity guide for law firms. Had to scratch that itch.

Stay safe.  And still, Nothing's Funny.