Antivirus Evolves From Signature Hunts to Behavioral Prediction as AI Reshapes the Threat Battlefield

Antivirus Evolves From Signature Hunts to Behavioral Prediction as AI Reshapes the Threat Battlefield

Antivirus software once operated like a bouncer checking IDs against a short list of known troublemakers. Match the photo. Block the entry. Simple. Effective. Until the bad actors started wearing disguises. Polymorphic malware rewrites itself with each infection. Zero-days strike before any database entry exists. Attackers now release variations faster than researchers can catalog them. The old model broke. So the industry changed course. CNET r…