ESET Research's latest Threat Report detailed PromptLock, the first known AI-driven ransomware, “capable of generating malicious scripts on the fly”, using an OpenAI model, via the Ollama API, to ...

Like a cut episode of Black Mirror, a ransomware has been spotted that prompts AI to cause havoc in machines. Naturally, it's called PromptLock, and it reportedly uses OpenAI's gpt-oss-20b, which ...

Ransomware has always been more than a technical risk—it’s a business, a weapon, and a psychological warfare tool. In my previous Forbes article titled “Ransomware on a Rampage; a New Wake-Up Call,” I ...

interview It all started as an idea for a research paper. … Within a week, however, it nearly set the security industry on fire over what was believed to be the first-ever AI-powered ransomware. A ...

As cybercrime surges around the world, new research increasingly shows that ransomware is evolving as a result of widely available generative AI tools. In some cases, attackers are using AI to draft ...

Ransomware gangs are already starting to embed AI into their workflows, allowing them to fine-tune and amplify attacks that have already stolen billions from U.S. corporations. Why it matters: Most ...

Even more overwhelming is that 96 percent of Americans receive weekly phone calls from scammers, which Kerbs said is one of the ways that scammers gain access to voices to create AI ransomware.

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. -- ESET Research discovers PromptLock, a new type of ransomware using GenAI to execute attacks. -- The malware runs a ...

According to CrowdStrike, these evolving methodologies show how AI tools are being used to improve traditional social engineering strategies. Attackers carry out targeted campaigns that bypass ...

Cybercriminals, including ransomware crews, will lean more heavily on agentic AI next year as attackers automate more of their operations, Trend Micro's researchers believe.… The prediction comes hot ...

Even AI has doubts about the claim that '80% of ransomware attacks are AI-driven' Do 80 percent of ransomware attacks really come from AI? MIT Sloan has now withdrawn a working paper that made that ...

Google Drive for desktop is adding ransomware detection using an AI model trained on “millions of real-world ransomware samples” that will “look for signals that a file has been maliciously modified.” ...