Intent AI: Protect Against Ransomware and Malicious Attachments

NACE^TM does not rely on any malicious payload, negating evasive malware by analyzing the intent of the email itself. We call it Intent AI.

This novel technology means Inception Cyber stops sophisticated and never-before-seen malware attacks before they can gain a foothold, whether built by humans, or powered by AI.

Problem

Modern Ransomware is Built to Evade Traditional Security

By 2031, ransomware is expected to cost $265 billion annually, striking every 2 seconds. With Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) lowering entry barriers, attacks are more profitable than ever—disrupting operations, costing millions in recovery, and exposing businesses, executives, and boards to serious legal and regulatory risks. Attackers leverage sophisticated evasion techniques to hide payloads, enabling ransomware to bypass traditional email security.

Problem^AI

AI is Evolving Ransomware Faster Than Legacy Defenses Can Keep Up

The emergence of Generative AI and models like FraudGPT, GhostGPT, and DeepSeek has dramatically increased the scale, precision, and variance of ransomware attacks. AI allows threat actors to scale up campaigns faster and smarter than ever before. As threat actors continue refining evasion tactics, organizations relying on legacy defenses will always be one step behind.

This isn’t just an evolution—it’s an arms race.

Scale

Legacy technology struggles to detect ransomware due to evasion techniques applied to payloads. Generative AI enables the automated addition of both known and novel evasions at scale, obscuring malware's malicious behavior and payload during analysis, further increasing its ability to evade detection.

Precision

AI-generated emails mimic real business communication, making them nearly indistinguishable from legitimate messages. This precision enables attackers to craft ransomware delivery emails that evade detection and manipulation safeguards, increasing the likelihood of successful execution.

Variance

Generative AI can create variants of malicious code at scale. Security that relies on static scanning or file-based features, such as decision tree models, can be evaded if it can't account for variations. For instance, dead code insertion allows AI to artificially increase file size, effectively bypassing legacy detection.

Solution^AI

A Radically Different Approach—Detection Without the Malicious Payload

Traditional solutions recursively scan files or auto-download links to find malware, techniques attackers evade with cleverly obfuscated payloads specifically built to slip past legacy technology.

NACE^TM Intent Analysis leverages advanced AI-driven techniques to deeply analyze and derive the purpose i.e. intent of an email—whether authored by AI, legitimate users, or threat actors. By leveraging pre-trained and fine-tuned neural networks, zero-shot semantic classification with LLMs, hierarchical topic modeling, phrase topic modeling, named entity recognition (NER), optical character recognition (OCR) and sentence transformers, NACE^TM accurately extracts the true intent behind an email.

The contextual relationship between intent, the SMTP headers and the auxiliary information from attachments aids to classify attachments as malicious or benign without needing a malicious payload.

NACE^TM does not rely on any malicious payload, negating evasive malware by analyzing the intent of the email itself.

No Execution/ Detonation

Unlike traditional post-execution detection technologies like EDR, XDR, or deception that trigger on execution, NACE^TM detects and blocks ransomware and other malware preemptively, reducing any clean up cost.

Intent
Analysis

Trained on over a decade of real-world email data, NACE^TM excels at isolating intent commonly exploited by threat actors to deliver malicious attachments. Its multi-layered approach ensures robust detection, even when adversaries attempt obfuscation through paraphrasing, linguistic manipulation, AI-generated content or multi language.

Evasion
Agnostic

Because NACE^TM doesn’t rely on the presence of a malicious payload, it is immune to the evasion tactics employed by human threat actors and AI, such as HTML smuggling, embedded scripts, or encrypted file attacks.

Why Inception Cyber for Ransomware and Malware

AI-powered threats demand AI-powered defense.

Inception Cyber is leading the way in stopping the ransomware and malware-based email attacks that are purpose-built to evade detection.

Stops Breaches Before Execution

Traditional tools often detect ransomware after it reaches the endpoint, increasing reliance on EDR solutions. NACE stops threats before they land, reducing security team burden.

Immune to Evasion Techniques

Because NACE^TM doesn’t rely on analyzing the actual attachment, we are less affected by evasion techniques designed to hide payloads from traditional scanners.

10 Minutes to Value

Since we don't need to build deep employee datasets—which take other vendors 30 days or more—our NACE^TM pre-trained model begins stopping threats as soon as it is deployed.

Read how NACE^TM is Stopping Malware and Ransomware

See our walkthroughs and step-by-step breakdowns of real-world evasive malware and ransomware attacks, and how Inception Cyber NACE^TM stops them when other technologies can't.

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