VirusTotal Adds Cynet’s Artificial Intelligence-Based Malware Detection

VirusTotal provides a free online service that analyzes
suspicious files and URLs to detect malware and automatically
shares them with the security community. With the onslaught of new
malware types and samples, researchers rely on the rapid discovery
and sharing provided by VirusTotal to keep their companies safe
from attacks.

VirusTotal relies on a continuous stream of new malware
discoveries to protect its members from significant damage.

Cynet^[2], the creator of the
autonomous breach protection platform, has now integrated its Cynet
Detection Engine into VirusTotal.

The benefits of this partnership are twofold. First, Cynet
provides the VirusTotal partner network cutting-edge threat
intelligence from its ML-based detection engine (CyAI) that
actively protects the company’s clients around the globe.

CyAI is a continuously learning and evolving detection model
that routinely contributes information about new threats that are
not available in VirusTotal. Although many vendors are using AI/ML
models, the ability of the models to detect new threats vary
greatly.

Cynet routinely outperforms third party and open source
detection platforms and is frequently relied upon in incident
response cases when underlying threats remain hidden from other
solutions.

For example, Cynet recently conducted an Incident Response
engagement for a large telecom provider. Cynet discovered several
malicious files that did not appear in the VirusTotal
database. 

Contributing information on these newly discovered files helps
our entire industry perform better and protect businesses against
cyber-attacks.

Second, Cynet will leverage intelligence in VirusTotal to inform
its CyAI model in order to continuously improve its detection
capabilities and accuracy.

Cynet AI is continually evolving, constantly learning new
datasets in order to improve its accuracy and decrease its
already-low false positive ratio. Comparing files found to be
malicious by CyAI against files also found to be malicious by other
providers helps to quickly validate Cynet’s findings.

For more information about Cynet and the Cynet 360 Platform,
click here^[3].

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