WSB News: Georgia Tech researchers develop breakthrough tool to stop cyber attacks within minutes

ATLANTA — Researchers at Georgia Tech have unveiled a groundbreaking cybersecurity tool designed to automatically remove malware and stop its spread across computer networks, potentially saving corporations and governments millions of dollars and weeks of recovery time.

Described as a type of digital “vaccine,” the tool replaces malicious code on infected computers with healing software that prevents reinfection and halts the attack at its source.

“So that the infected computers, instead of downloading new malicious code, they would download our vaccine code,” said Georgia Tech researcher Dr. Brendan Saltaformaggio. “It would basically heal or mediate all of the infected computers all around the world. It’s one quick go.”