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Someone Created First AI-Powered Ransomware Using OpenAI's gpt-oss:20b Model

Someone Created First AI-Powered Ransomware Using OpenAI's gpt-oss:20b Model
technology • 8/27/2025

ESET uncovers AI-powered PromptLock ransomware using OpenAI gpt-oss:20b model, complicating detection with variable Lua scripts.

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-oss:20b model from OpenAI locally via the Ollama ... [4033 chars]