The looming threat of AI-powered cyberattacks - TechHQ

Over three decades ago, the Morris Worm infected an estimated 10% of the 60,000 computers that were online in 1988. It was the personal malware project of a Harvard graduate named Robert Tappan Morris, that was widely deemed to be the world's first cyber-attack. Fast forward to today, and cyberattacks now stand among natural disasters and climate change in the World Economic Forum's annual list of global society's gravest threats. In fact, with machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) coming into the picture, cybersecurity is becoming more effective and powerful but there is another side of the coin too. Breaking into computer systems has become a child's play using AI and ML.