May 20, 2022

New method to kill cyberattacks in less than a second

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May 20, 2022

by Cardiff University

A new method that could automatically detect and kill cyberattacks on our laptops, computers and smart devices in under a second has been created by researchers at Cardiff University.

Using artificial intelligence in a completely novel way, the method has been shown to successfully prevent up to 92 percent of files on a computer from being corrupted, with it taking just 0.3 seconds on average for a piece of malware to be wiped out.

Publishing their findings in the journal Security and Communications Networks, the team say this is the first demonstration of a method that can both detect and kill malicious software in real-time, which could transform approaches to modern cybersecurity and avoid instances such as the recent WannaCry cyberattack that hit the NHS in 2017.

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