Computers Have Found a Better Way to Spot Emailed Malware, Researchers Say

guest · Jul 24, 2018

Computers Have Found a Better Way to Spot Emailed Malware, Researchers Say
Somehow no one thought of applying machine learning to malicious email in exactly this way. But the results are big.
July 24, 2018
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecuri...malware-researchers-say/149973/?oref=rf-river

Look out, McAfee; the next big cybersecurity software could be coming out of Israel. A group of researchers from Ben-Gurion University has published a new method for detecting malicious emails that they say outperforms 60 top-selling anti-virus programs.

“Existing email analysis solutions only analyze specific email elements using rule-based methods, and don’t analyze other important parts,” Nir Nissim, head of the David and Janet Polak Family Malware Lab at Cyber@BGU, said in a press release.

[...] the researchers took 33,142 emails, about one-third of which were malicious, and applied various machine-learning methodologies to find common indicators of bad email that popular virus-detecting software packages such as Kaspersky, McAfee, and BitDefender missed. They dubbed the resulting tool Email-Sec-360°.

“The results show that malicious emails can be detected effectively when using our novel features with machine learning algorithms. Moreover, our novel features enhance the detection of malicious emails when used in conjunction with features suggested by related work,” the researchers write in their paper.
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EASTER · Jul 24, 2018

If this holds true, and there's no evidence found to the contrary yet, this ability is a pretty good discovery that's been there all the time.

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