AI opens the door to make many tasks easier in life... including creating ransomware. The barrier of entry for threat actors is now significantly lowered, and by dynamically generating on the fly, it weakens detection techniques like file prevalence. Behaviour detections are a must and EDR needs to evolve capabilities to detect this as early in the chain as possible. https://lnkd.in/edD5Xxc3
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Researchers raise the alarm that a new, rapidly evolving ransomware strain uses an OpenAI model to render and execute malicious code in real time, ushering in a new era of cyberattacks against enterprises. https://lnkd.in/e8YPwJWu
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ESET’s discovery of PromptLock (classified as Filecoder.PromptLock.A), the first AI-powered ransomware, feels like a real turning point. Even though it began as an academic proof of concept, the fact it can use a local AI model to generate malicious scripts on the fly shows how quickly attackers could raise the stakes. For me, the big takeaway is clear: we need to stay ahead with AI-aware detection, stronger behavioral analytics, and closer collaboration across the industry. PromptLock may not be in the wild today, but it’s a glimpse of what’s coming. https://lnkd.in/d4FV8UJg
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ESET today announced the discovery of "the first known AI-powered ransomware." The ransomware in question has been dubbed PromptLock, presumably because seemingly everything related to generative AI has to be prefixed with "prompt." https://lnkd.in/gWUbm_nN
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3wSpecialised (and typically small) models are heavily used in EDR but really do think we'll see this expand as it becomes commonly place for endpoints to have LLM/AI optimised chipsets.