At the BlackHat 2017 security conference, Symantec presented on using RapidMiner to identify a specific type of email attack called “business email compromise”.
“To test the ability of criminals to build more robust BEC systems, Symantec used RapidMiner, a data science software platform, on a support vector machine. According to Singh, machine learning helped ingest key data points, such as Twitter users who sent a higher number of tweets, to predict the likelihood of a successful response to a carefully designed fake email.”
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