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A single malware file can outweigh an entire AI dataset

A new research paper argues that generative AI struggles with static malware analysis because a single malicious file can contain more data than an entire AI training dataset, making it difficult for models to learn effective detection patterns. The findings challenge the effectiveness of AI features being shipped by antivirus vendors and security startups.

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Antivirus vendors and security startups keep shipping AI features that promise to read malware the way a seasoned analyst would. The results inside security teams tell a quieter story. A new paper argues that static analysis of software, the job of deciding whether a program is malicious by examining its contents on disk, remains one of the hardest places to make generative AI work. The scale of the problem explains much of the difficulty. Standard … More

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