Intel-Microsoft joint project turns malware into images>
Outlook – India – IANS
San Francisco, May 11 (IANS) Researchers from Intel and Microsoft have joined forces to study the use of deep learning for malware threat detection in a project that first converts malware into images. The researchers used an approach that they called static malware-as-image network analysis (STAMINA), Jugal Parikh and Marc Marino from Microsoft Threat Protection Intelligence Team wrote in a blog post. For the first part of the collaboration, the researchers built on Intel”s prior work on deep transfer learning for static malware classification and used a real-world dataset from Microsoft to ascertain the practical value of approaching the malware classification problem as a computer vision task. The results were detailed in a paper titled “STAMINA: Scalable deep learning approach for malware classification”.
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