Google introduces a new AI defense for Drive on Desktop, designed to detect ransomware attacks before they spread like a fire.
How The Verge Reports, the system uses models trained in millions of actual ransomware samples, stopping suspicious synchronization activity and gives users return to safer versions of their files.
This update lands while the incidents with ransomware software climb. The office of the Director of the National Intelligence USA has counted over 5,000 attacks around the world in 2024 alone, 15% jump from the previous year.
Attacks hit everyone – from hospitals to school to international corporations – increasing resistance with greater priority than ever.
Move Google reflects a wider industry to bake artificial intelligence in cyber security. Last week, The European Central Bank knocked at AI Felezai To fight fraud in the upcoming digital euro, emphasizing how Central AI becomes in the protection of both data and money.
And pressure does not apply only to technology companies. Regulatory authorities also enter.
In Brussels, talks around I have an act They intensify, and decision -makers call for more severe security about how AI is implemented in sensitive areas, such as finance and security.
Ransomware prevention is in line with this conversation – because when personal or business data is encrypted by criminals, it is usually too late.
Personally, I consider it a fascinating change. Over the years, storage in the cloud seemed like a vault – Safe, reliable, boring.
But the truth is that the attackers go where the data live, and in nowadays it is in the cloud.
Adding artificial intelligence, which not only observes known signatures, but adapts to new threats, seems to be an appropriate type of paranoia.
The great test will be whether daily users actually notice and trust – or if they are worried only after the first ball of the ransomware.
