AI Ransomware Is Here, Now Powered By Cheaper, Agentic Models

JadePuffer, a ransomware operation, used an AI agent to carry out much of the intrusion chain from reconnaissance, key theft, ...

Jadepuffer: The first AI ransomware attack not only messes up the key

Researchers document the first LLM-controlled ransomware attack. But the AI failed due to basic errors. A warning for admins.
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First AI-Agent Ransomware Destroyed Data Even Payment Could Not Recover

a laptop screen with a webpage of the IT Army of Ukraine group of volunteer hackers. The IT Army of Ukraine first set up in the ...
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AI agent carries out ransomware attack independently

Researchers at Sysdig say they have observed, for the first time, a ransomware attack carried out almost entirely by an AI agent. According to the ...

ESET Threat Report: AI boosts cyber attackers’ efficiency

ESET Research has released its H1 2026 Threat Report with statistics from December 2025 through May 2026.ClickFix – a social engineering ...