PromptLock: The AI-Powered Ransomware – A Dive into ESET's Discovery (blog.sofiane.cc)

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.