{"id":239837,"date":"2026-06-27T23:28:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T04:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/ai-can-be-an-ally-in-rooting-out-ransomware-threats"},"modified":"2026-06-27T23:28:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T04:28:24","slug":"ai-can-be-an-ally-in-rooting-out-ransomware-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/ai-can-be-an-ally-in-rooting-out-ransomware-threats","title":{"rendered":"AI can be an ally in rooting out ransomware threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-can-be-an-ally-in-rooting-out-ransomware-threats.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AI can be used to prevent cybersecurity threats linked to ransomware, says University of Cincinnati researcher Nelly Elsayed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in a hype era of AI,\u201d says Elsayed, associate professor in the UC School of Information Technology. \u201cSome people support it, others fear it, but in general people who design technology are trying to use it for good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elsayed, founder and leader of the Applied Machine Learning and Intelligence Lab at UC, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2214212626001778\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> research in the <i>Journal of Information Security and Applications<\/i>, arguing that generative AI may be an ally in strengthening ransomware defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI can be used to prevent cybersecurity threats linked to ransomware, says University of Cincinnati researcher Nelly Elsayed. \u201cWe are in a hype era of AI,\u201d says Elsayed, associate professor in the UC School of Information Technology. \u201cSome people support it, others fear it, but in general people who design technology are trying to use [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}