These threat animations were produced as supporting material for a C-level executive, discussing potential cyber threats for a US based News Interview.

The Threat Animations tell the stories of two hypothetical attacks, based on past examples gathered from real world situations.

The first story tells the tale of standard office computer on a corporate network. The computer receives a malicious email containing malware, which is opened. The Malware scans the network looking for vulnerable devices, to spread too. Once on the new device the malware scans files in the background, collecting sensitive information. After enough data has been collected the malware signals back to the initial infected device, exfiltrating the stolen information to an external server. This story represents a commonly seen email based malware attack.

The second story shows the events of a hypothetical industrial sabotage. A deep sea monitoring device, used for ocean research, is highjacked and rigged to transmitting false readings when scanned. The device in the story begins transmitting false readings of a large scale oil well, which is triggered by a prospecting ship scanning for oil. The oil company then proceeds to start drilling the area only to lose large amounts of revenue, by drilling in the wrong spot. This speculation of a potential future attack, was to demonstrate why autonomous AI defence is needed to secure potential blind spots which could cost companies millions.

These threat stories were built from scratch using a combination of Illustrator for the visuals, and After Effects for the moving image animation. The reason for visual elements being produced in Illustrator was to produce high resolution vector graphics which could be updated on the fly, with minimal changes needed to update the animated elements in after effects.