Someone Created First AI-Powered Ransomware Using OpenAI's gpt-oss:20b Model
An AI-powered Golang ransomware, PromptLock, uses a local OpenAI gpt-oss:20b model via Ollama to generate cross-platform Lua scripts for file exfiltration and encryption.
Security researchers have just identified what could be the first 'AI-powered' ransomware strain - and it uses OpenAI's gpt-oss-20b model
PromptLock is an AI-powered, cross-platform ransomware proof-of-concept that uses a local LLM to generate Lua scripts for data exfiltration and SPECK encryption.