PromptLock: The AI-Powered Ransomware – A Dive into ESET's Discovery

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SofianeHamlaoui · 5h ago

ESET uncovers PromptLock, the first AI-powered ransomware using OpenAI’s gpt-oss:20b via Ollama API to generate dynamic Lua scripts for cross-platform data exfiltration and SPECK 128-bit encryption, marking a new era in ransomware sophistication.

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PromptLock: The AI-Powered Ransomware – A Dive into ESET's Discovery

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