What You Must Know About Machine Learning Malware Analysis
We are in the post-signature era of antimalware software. Attackers are driven by the profit motive, and are also driven by a lust for power. About a decade ago, malware researchers determined that the amount of malicious files in the computing collective doubled every two years. Now, in a manner similar to Moore’s Law, the rate of malware growth is probably exponentially greater. Malware deployers aren’t only script kiddies who buy executables and crypters in the Dark Web. They’re also national militaries… Stuxnet anyone?