{"id":379393,"date":"2025-08-28T04:16:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/379393\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T04:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:16:16","slug":"oh-goody-the-first-known-ai-powered-ransomware-has-been-discovered-and-it-may-exfiltrate-data-encrypt-it-or-potentially-destroy-it-pc-gamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/379393\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh goody, the 'first known AI-powered ransomware' has been discovered and it 'may exfiltrate data, encrypt it, or potentially destroy it' – PC Gamer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Oh goody, the ‘first known AI-powered ransomware’ has been discovered and it ‘may exfiltrate data, encrypt it, or potentially destroy it’<\/a>  PC Gamer<\/li>\n
  2. First known AI-powered ransomware uncovered by ESET Research<\/a>  WeLiveSecurity<\/li>\n
  3. Security researchers have just identified what could be the first \u2018AI-powered\u2019 ransomware strain \u2013 and it uses OpenAI\u2019s gpt-oss-20b model<\/a>  IT Pro<\/li>\n
  4. ESET uncovers PromptLock ransomware prototype powered by local LLMs<\/a>  Notebookcheck<\/li>\n
  5. First AI-powered ransomware spotted, but it’s not active \u2013 yet<\/a>  theregister.com<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oh goody, the ‘first known AI-powered ransomware’ has been discovered and it ‘may exfiltrate data, encrypt it, or…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-379393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115104460526353105","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}