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116 The first AI-powered ransomware has been discovered — "PromptLock" uses local AI to foil heuristic detection and evade API tracking

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Tom's Hardware · 08/26/2025 15:10 EDT

The first AI-powered ransomware has been discovered — "PromptLock" uses local AI to foil heuristic detection and evade API tracking

Security firm ESET has discovered a new type of ransomware that uses a local AI model to generate malicious scripts and perform other illicit activities. Because of the variance of LLM output, this malware is harder to track than traditional attacks.

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