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CyberLabs invents new way to detect COVID-19 with voice recognition use of speech-recognition technology for screening and detection of those likely to be positive for the virus .
Last October , a team of researchers from Brazilian AI giant CyberLabs Group participated in the paralinguistics challenge at Interspeech 2021 , where they took home top honors for their promising new algorithm that is capable of detecting COVID-19 infections by analyzing audio clips of coughing and speech , based on early testing .
As the battle against COVID-19 wages on around the world , scientists and researchers are turning to Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) to find new ways to detect , fight and treat the virus afflicting most of the planet .
Although there have been a lot of disappointing results from AI-driven clinical initiatives , one solution that now offers glimmers of hope is the
Using an advanced AI-based voicerecognition methodology , research teams analyzed several hours of audio recordings of both healthy and sick individuals to identify patterns that are consistent with COVID-19 infections . After teaching their deep-learning algorithm to recognize COVID-related sound patterns , CyberLabs was able to identify three out of four sick people correctly ( 75.9 % of the time ) when using audio recordings of their coughing , and 70.3 % of the time when relying on recordings of speech .
Sonicwall reports nearly ‘ unimaginable upward trend ’ in ransomware
SonicWall has recorded a 148 % increase in global ransomware attacks through the third quarter of 2021 .
With 495 million ransomware attacks logged by the company in 2021 , the past year has been the most costly and dangerous on record .
“ As we see it , ransomware is on a nearly unimaginable upward trend , which poses a major risk to businesses , service providers , governments and everyday citizens ,” said SonicWall President and CEO Bill Conner .
“ The real-world damage caused by these attacks is beyond anecdotal at this point . It ’ s a serious national and global problem that has already taken a toll on businesses and governments everywhere . I ’ m hopeful that the recent global ransomware summit is the next step toward a greater response at global , national and state levels .”
Dmitriy Ayrapetov , SonicWall Vice President of Platform Architecture , said : “ The techniques deployed by ransomware actors have evolved well beyond the smash-and-grab attacks from just a few years ago .
“ Today ’ s cybercriminals demonstrate deliberate reconnaissance , planning and execution to surgically deploy toolchains targeting enterprise and government infrastructure . This results in larger victims and leads to higher ransoms .”
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