“It's time to wake up and smell the Mutating Hash! Signature Based Malware Detection is Dead” AiArtificial IntelligenceNational SecurityCybersecurityVirusAnalyticsMachine LearningJames ScottIcitMalwareAnti VirusOpmAntiquated TechnologyHackforumsKeyloggerNon Signature BasedSignature Based Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“Hacking a national election is simple. Exploit a vulnerability in the manufacturer's network, poison the tabulation software update with self-deleting malware and let the manufacturer send to their field reps and election consultants who update the election systems.” ElectionHackingJames ScottMalwareElections 2016E VoteElection SystemsElectronic Voting Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“A single spear-phishing email carrying a slightly altered malware can bypass multi-million dollar enterprise security solutions if an adversary deceives a cyber-hygienically apathetic employee into opening the attachment or clicking a malicious link and thereby compromising the entire network.” SecurityCybersecurityNetworkJames ScottIcitMalwarePhishing Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“In an age of dynamic malware obfuscation through operations such as mutating hash, a hyper-evolving threat landscape, and technologically next generation adversaries, offensive campaigns have an overwhelming advantage over defensive strategies.” SecurityNext GenerationCybersecurityJames ScottMalwareNetwork Security Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“Wannacry is the Stuxnet of Ransomware” James ScottMalwareSenior FellowRansomwareStuxnetWannacry Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“Every conceivable layer of the election process is completely riddled with vulnerabilities, so yes, hacking elections is easy!” SecurityElectionVotingElectionsHackingCybersecurityElection 2016MalwarePhishing Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“Consider all tabulation systems infected by bad actors until a third party, not affiliated with the manufacturer or election officials, proves they are secure.” ElectionVotingElectionsHackingCybersecurityElection 2016MalwarePhishingCyber Threats Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“A Nation State or Cyber-Mercenary won’t hack e-voting machines one by one. This takes too long and will have minimal impact. Instead, they’ll take an easier approach like spear phishing the manufacturer with malware and poison the voting machine update pre-election and allow the manufacturer to update each individual machine with a self-deleting payload that will target the tabulation process.” ElectionVotingElectionsHackingCybersecurityMercenaryMercenariesMalwarePhishing Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology