CrowdStrike’s Artificial Intelligence Tooling Uses Similarity Search to Analyze Script-Based Malware Attack Techniques

CrowdStrike's blog highlights its innovative use of artificial intelligence and deep learning to enhance cybersecurity measures, particularly through the Falcon platform. The platform utilizes similarity search techniques to detect malware by analyzing PowerShell scripts for shared characteristics with known threats, drawing from the computer vision field to improve detection accuracy. By leveraging deep-learning-based feature descriptors and approximate nearest neighbor search, CrowdStrike can efficiently identify new malware variants, even as AI tools like ChatGPT potentially facilitate the generation of malicious code. This approach allows threat researchers to quickly respond to emerging threats and maintain high-quality intelligence reports, solidifying CrowdStrike's leadership in the cybersecurity industry.