A sophisticated threat campaign, first identified by Elastic Security Labs in early February 2026, has been actively deploying a custom-built remote access trojan (RAT) dubbed MIMICRAT through a multi ...

The dissector is bundled as a Wireshark plugin. More information can be found here: https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/ChPluginFolders.html the personal ...

Currently as of AoE2DE update: Update 169123, only Memory Dump script 2 is working (titled Dump gpv keys, iv [Method 2] and dump decrypted campaigns [Worked #158041, #169123]) Update 158041, only ...

How threat actors are weaponizing large language models to create autonomous, self-modifying malware that challenges everything we thought we knew about cybersecurity On November 5, 2025, Google's ...

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PromptLock is only a prototype of LLM-orchestrated ransomware, but hackers already use AI in file encryption and extortion attacks. AI-powered ransomware is here, although it is not the recently ...

In the era of vibe coding, cybercriminals are upping the stakes and using artificial intelligence (AI) to extort victims and exfiltrate data. And ransomware is no exception. Cybercriminals have long ...

Threat researchers discovered the first AI-powered ransomware, called PromptLock, that uses Lua scripts to steal and encrypt data on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. The malware uses OpenAI’s ...

Cybersecurity company ESET has disclosed that it discovered an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered ransomware variant codenamed PromptLock. Written in Golang, the newly identified strain uses the gpt ...

Proof-of-concept ransomware uses AI models to generate attack scripts in real time. AI-powered malware is closer than expected, as the first known ransomware family to rely on AI systems for local ...