AI-Enabled Cyberspace Attacks: Security Risks and Countermeasures

 Artificial intelligence (AI) brings significant societal progress and it also revolutionizes the cybersecurity sector. Thus, studying the security problems induced by the deep fusion of AI and cyberspace security becomes significant. In this article, we systematically analyze the major national sec...

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Autores principales: Fang Binxing, Shi Jinqiao, Wang Zhongru, Yu Weiqiang
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:56d86f8160ef45ba89d0bc4eee459ae12021-11-29T08:00:53ZAI-Enabled Cyberspace Attacks: Security Risks and Countermeasures2096-003410.15302/J-SSCAE-2021.03.002https://doaj.org/article/56d86f8160ef45ba89d0bc4eee459ae12021-03-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.engineering.org.cn/en/10.15302/J-SSCAE-2021.03.002https://doaj.org/toc/2096-0034 Artificial intelligence (AI) brings significant societal progress and it also revolutionizes the cybersecurity sector. Thus, studying the security problems induced by the deep fusion of AI and cyberspace security becomes significant. In this article, we systematically analyze the major national security issues induced by the fusion, involving political, economic, social, and national defense securities. These issues aggravate the existing security risks and trigger new threats. Moreover, new attack scenarios are analyzed, including autonomous and large-scale denial-of-service attacks, intelligent and disguised social engineering attacks, and intelligent and targeted malicious code attacks. Subsequently, future AI-enabled attack types such as situation-awareness covert attacks, distributed autonomous-collaboration attacks, and self-evolving attacks are explored. To effectively address the security threats of AI-enabled cyber attacks, we suggest that an intelligent network attack and defense system should be established and its capabilities upgraded to construct equivalent capabilities. Sharing of AI security data assets should be encouraged to develop a data-centered path for AI-enabled network attack and defense technologies. Furthermore, the AI-enabled network attack and defense technologies should be evaluated and verified through counterwork, enabling these technologies to be practically implemented. Fang Binxing Shi Jinqiao Wang Zhongru Yu Weiqiang 《中国工程科学》杂志社articleartificial intelligence (AI), cyber attack and defense, national security, autonomous collaboration, self-evolutionEngineering (General). Civil engineering (General)TA1-2040ZH中国工程科学, Vol 23, Iss 3, Pp 60-66 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language ZH
topic artificial intelligence (AI), cyber attack and defense, national security, autonomous collaboration, self-evolution
Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
TA1-2040
spellingShingle artificial intelligence (AI), cyber attack and defense, national security, autonomous collaboration, self-evolution
Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
TA1-2040
Fang Binxing
Shi Jinqiao
Wang Zhongru
Yu Weiqiang
AI-Enabled Cyberspace Attacks: Security Risks and Countermeasures
description  Artificial intelligence (AI) brings significant societal progress and it also revolutionizes the cybersecurity sector. Thus, studying the security problems induced by the deep fusion of AI and cyberspace security becomes significant. In this article, we systematically analyze the major national security issues induced by the fusion, involving political, economic, social, and national defense securities. These issues aggravate the existing security risks and trigger new threats. Moreover, new attack scenarios are analyzed, including autonomous and large-scale denial-of-service attacks, intelligent and disguised social engineering attacks, and intelligent and targeted malicious code attacks. Subsequently, future AI-enabled attack types such as situation-awareness covert attacks, distributed autonomous-collaboration attacks, and self-evolving attacks are explored. To effectively address the security threats of AI-enabled cyber attacks, we suggest that an intelligent network attack and defense system should be established and its capabilities upgraded to construct equivalent capabilities. Sharing of AI security data assets should be encouraged to develop a data-centered path for AI-enabled network attack and defense technologies. Furthermore, the AI-enabled network attack and defense technologies should be evaluated and verified through counterwork, enabling these technologies to be practically implemented.
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author Fang Binxing
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title AI-Enabled Cyberspace Attacks: Security Risks and Countermeasures
title_short AI-Enabled Cyberspace Attacks: Security Risks and Countermeasures
title_full AI-Enabled Cyberspace Attacks: Security Risks and Countermeasures
title_fullStr AI-Enabled Cyberspace Attacks: Security Risks and Countermeasures
title_full_unstemmed AI-Enabled Cyberspace Attacks: Security Risks and Countermeasures
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