A Deep Learning Approach for Detecting Unknown Malware

All of the major antivirus vendors at this point are moving towards machine learning approaches to keep up with the evolving threat landscape. However, with upwards of 1 million new pieces of malware released into the wild per day, traditional machine learning approaches may be not be up to the task. Now a company called Deep Instinct is hoping to take malware detection to the next level by using deep learning. In the cat and mouse game that is Internet security, cybercriminals and bad actors constantly try to pull one over on the rest of us. If they can sneak a new piece of malicious code past our endpoint detection systems, they can reap the financial rewards.