JadePuffer ransomware used AI agent to automate entire attack

Researchers identified what they believe is the first documented case of a ransomware operation, JadePuffer, conducted ...
techtimes

First AI-Agent Ransomware Destroyed Data Even Payment Could Not Recover

a laptop screen with a webpage of the IT Army of Ukraine group of volunteer hackers. The IT Army of Ukraine first set up in the wake of Russia's devastating attack, and has since hugely grown in ...
Microsoft

GigaWiper: Anatomy of a destructive backdoor assembled from multiple malware

GigaWiper is a destructive backdoor that combines multiple wiping and ransomware-like capabilities into a single operational ...

Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk

A patch Microsoft released on Wednesday to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its Defender security engine may cause Windows ...
The Hacker News

SkillCloak Lets Malicious AI Agent Skills Evade Static Scanners with Self-Extracting Packing

Learn how malicious AI agent skills easily bypass static scanners. Discover how runtime checking secures tools like Claude ...
CSO Online

This AI agent autonomously hacked a network, adapted on the fly, and demanded a ransom

JadePuffer exploited a vulnerable Langflow server, harvested credentials, moved laterally, and encrypted more than 1,300 ...