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2 days agoSecurity researchers have just identified what could be the first 'AI-powered' ransomware strain - and it uses OpenAI's gpt-oss-20b model
"PromptLock leverages Lua scripts generated from hard-coded prompts to enumerate the local filesystem, inspect target files, exfiltrate selected data, and perform encryption," said researchers Anton Cherepanov and Peter Strycek in posts on several social media sites, including . "These Lua scripts are cross-platform compatible, functioning on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Based on the detected user files, the malware may exfiltrate data, encrypt it, or potentially destroy it."
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