Microsoft recently published an interesting blog post. They stated that they are experimenting with "novel methods" to harness the power of AI to identify threats to the threat landscape and prevent them from becoming a problem.
The company is particularly focused on stopping ransomware attacks in their early stages.
They are specifically targeting ransomware campaigns that are human-operated to get even finer details. They found that human-operated ransomware attacks have certain common indicators. These commonalities can be used as a way to prevent future attacks.
Microsoft's blog post gives an example of a hacker who steals network credentials from a company. They will log in first to verify the credentials and then, once inside, they will most likely move around inside the network in ways the correct owner would not.
This allows the AI to be alerted for specific data points.
These fall broadly into three categories: device-based, graph based, or time based.
A time-based data point could be as simple as a hacker testing credentials at 3:00 AM and the original owner of the credentials logs in at 8 AM.
Graph-based patterns represent graphs of physical moves in a network space. They are plotted against the expected moves.
Device-based data points sound exactly like they are. The AI would expect the victim of stolen credentials to log in from their workstation, not some hidden laptop behind layers of proxy servers. This is suspicious enough.
Although it's a fantastic idea, Microsoft quickly points out that it is still in its infancy. It's not difficult to see how this could be an essential tool.
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These are some things you can do.
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