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ESET researcher who discovered PromptLock, the first known AI-written ransomware, and discusses its capabilities and implications.
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ESET researchers discovered PromptLock, the first known AI-written ransomware created using OpenAI's gpt-oss:20b model, which dynamically generates Lua scripts to exfiltrate and encrypt files using SPECK 128-bit encryption.
“ESET researcher who discovered PromptLock, the first known AI-written ransomware, and discusses its capabilities and implications.”