How AI Is Changing the Malware Landscape
RSA Conference 2024 · Track Session
In this insightful talk at RSAC 2024, Vicente Diaz from VirusTotal delves into the transformative impact of Large Language Models (LLMs) on malware analysis and the broader cybersecurity landscape. While acknowledging the pervasive "AI hype," Diaz aims to provide a grounded, practical perspective based on VirusTotal's extensive experience over the past year. The presentation focuses on the demonstrable strengths and weaknesses of LLMs when applied to understanding malicious code, moving beyond speculation to share concrete observations from a massive dataset of samples.