Machine learning continues to be widely pursued by cybersecurity companies as a way to bolster defenses and speed response. Security firm Malwarebytes says 5% of 94 million malicious programs detected in first five months of 2019 came from machine-learning powered anomaly-detection system. AI will be used for things like finding network intrusions or noticing that something weird is going on in your network, says security expert Adam Kujawa. But security firm also warns that AI can tip the balance in favor of the attacker. IBM created a proof-of-concept attack that conceals itself and its intentions.”]

