The First Known AI-Powered Ransomware Has Been Discovered

this is a silly thing, it would be trivial to detect compared to regular randomware (way smaller footprint / activities, way easier to hide...)

for ex. a lot of ransomware try to evade security mechanisms by masquerading as legit processes , or injecting into them and performing its activities from there.

more creepy/viable would be to exploit for instance agentic AI to encrypt someones data which is not accessible to you. (like how ppl get it to exfiltrade data). so you can email a company and co pilot encrypts their sharepoint (i really doubt such a thing would ever be possible. lets hope not :D)