Defense technology company Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. today announced the launch of Vellox Reverser, an artificial intelligence cloud product that protects organizations from malware as cyberattacks continue to grow.

Vellox Reverser uses AI agents and algorithms developed over decades of cyber defense tradecraft with U.S. government agencies to protect organizations from evasive malware by automating reverse engineering. The product applies reverse engineering techniques using a network of peer-to-peer nodes that collaboratively deconstruct complex malware binaries and produce  defensive recommendations in minutes instead of days or weeks.

Advanced persistent threat groups and malicious actors are increasingly using AI and other sophisticated tools to create tailored malware variants that evade detection in 2025, making the challenge of tackling them increasingly more difficult. Booz Allen says that when static and dynamic analysis fall short, teams traditionally turn to manual reverse engineering, which requires highly specialized skills and time-consuming processes that limit scalability and response times. Vellox Reverser uses swarm intelligence to automate deep analysis, replicating expert-level insights at speed and scale.

“Booz Allen has decades of malware defense tradecraft from our work protecting the most sensitive branches of the U.S. government and we’ve encoded that expertise into a product that can produce expert-level analysis and actionable mitigation at machine speed and scale,” explained Mujtaba Hamid, executive vice president of product at Booz Allen. “We are bringing advanced technology to solve real-world mission challenges while improving security and reducing costs.”

For organizations that already have reverse engineers on staff, Vellox Reverser acts as a force multiplier by helping engineers work faster to clear the backlog of suspicious files while also freeing up more time to dig deeper into the most complex samples. Organizations without reverse engineers on staff can use the product to replace legacy malware analysis tools and receive better results more quickly and with less effort.

In both cases, Vellox Reverser has been designed to level the playing field by allowing cybersecurity teams to analyze and defend against complex malware.

“As bad actors adopt increasingly sophisticated, AI-driven tactics, our defenses must also evolve,” said Joe Gillespie, a senior vice president for Booz Allen’s national security business. “Vellox Reverser constantly adapts to new malware variants, exercising every code path to learn how a piece of malware behaves.”

Booz Allen was previously in the news in April when it teamed up with Meta Platforms Inc. to develop an AI system for the International Space Station. The project, called Space Llama, is based on a fine-tuned version of Meta’s Llama 3.2 language model series and is designed to support science projects in the ISS National Laboratory, a research lab located aboard the station.

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