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Is Generative AI the Next Tactical Cyber Weapon For Threat Actors? Unforeseen Implications of AI Generated Cyber Attacks
Usman, Yusuf, Upadhyay, Aadesh, Gyawali, Prashnna, Chataut, Robin
In an era where digital threats are increasingly sophisticated, the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and cybersecurity presents both promising defenses and potent dangers. This paper delves into the escalating threat posed by the misuse of AI, specifically through the use of Large Language Models (LLMs). This study details various techniques like the switch method and character play method, which can be exploited by cybercriminals to generate and automate cyber attacks. Through a series of controlled experiments, the paper demonstrates how these models can be manipulated to bypass ethical and privacy safeguards to effectively generate cyber attacks such as social engineering, malicious code, payload generation, and spyware. By testing these AI generated attacks on live systems, the study assesses their effectiveness and the vulnerabilities they exploit, offering a practical perspective on the risks AI poses to critical infrastructure. We also introduce Occupy AI, a customized, finetuned LLM specifically engineered to automate and execute cyberattacks. This specialized AI driven tool is adept at crafting steps and generating executable code for a variety of cyber threats, including phishing, malware injection, and system exploitation. The results underscore the urgency for ethical AI practices, robust cybersecurity measures, and regulatory oversight to mitigate AI related threats. This paper aims to elevate awareness within the cybersecurity community about the evolving digital threat landscape, advocating for proactive defense strategies and responsible AI development to protect against emerging cyber threats.
Red Sox announcer sets off his iPhone's 'Siri' after announcing at-bat of Rays player with same name
Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. At long last, an iPhone finally went off while someone was broadcasting a Tampa Bay Rays game. Because the Rays have a guy named Jose Siri on their team. And yes, his last name is pronounced just like the iPhone's "Siri."
Classifying Unordered Feature Sets with Convolutional Deep Averaging Networks
Gardner, Andrew, Kanno, Jinko, Duncan, Christian A., Selmic, Rastko R.
We propose convolutional deep averaging networks (CDANs) for classifying and learning feature representations of datasets containing instances with unordered features, where each feature is considered a tuple composed of one or more values. CDANs accept variable-size input and are invariant to permutations of the input's order. In addition, as a side-effect of the training process, CDANs learn discriminative, nonlinear embeddings of individual input elements into a space of chosen dimensionality. Contrary to their name, which is inspired by the work of Iyyer et al. [11], CDANs could perhaps be more accurately termed convolutional deep pooling networks as we also consider the effects of functions other than averaging such as taking element-wise maximums or sums. A. Contributions We propose CDANs for classifying unordered feature sets. We show that a CDAN with nonlinear embeddings is competitive with and perhaps even superior to recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and known permutation-invariant architectures for classifying instances containing variablesize sets of unordered features. We also find that the type of pooling plays a significant role in determining the efficacy of the network with sum-pooling clearly outperforming maxand average-pooling.