News BlackBerry's Cylance AI Antivirus Defeated by Embarrassing Universal Bypass

[Admin]

BlackBerry's leading AI-based antivirus product defeated by embarrassing universal bypass.

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[redgarl]

Yeah... but AI is able to learn from its mistakes... what you don't seem to be able to do yourself...

BB will update its software periodically, I am not afraid. It will get better with time.

 

[bit_user]

Yeah... but AI is able to learn from its mistakes...

Yeah, but at whose expense?

BB will update its software periodically, I am not afraid. It will get better with time.

This already happens with conventional antivirus. I think the key selling point of AI-powered antivirus is that it doesn't need to be told about new malware - it will recognize them without requiring updates.

The fatal flaw with this approach seems to be:

malware makers are not “wooden dummies” -- they fight back and can come up with clever tricks that are easy to implement and could completely confuse the AI

If the malware makers have access to the AV software, then they can keep trying different things until it passes. Suddenly, your AI-powered AV software is now no better than conventional AV software - once again, requiring patches before it's able to recognize new malware.