OH GOODY, THE 'FIRST KNOWN AI-POWERED RANSOMWARE' HAS BEEN DISCOVERED, AND IT 'MAY EXFILTRATE DATA, ENCRYPT IT, OR POTENTIALLY DESTROY IT'

Summary from the TLDR AI newsletter

PromptLock is a newly discovered proof-of-concept ransomware that uses OpenAI's gpt-oss-20b model to generate code to exfiltrate data, encrypt it, and potentially destroy it. It uses the Ollama API to generate malicious Lua scripts on the fly, which it then executes. The ransomware runs locally, which allows it to avoid detection more easily as it doesn't use any online resources.