AI has been a big part of the cybersecurity industry for many years. Over the past three especially, it has begun to redefine the threat landscape and amplify the arms race between attackers and ...

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A 13-year-old vulnerability that affects all versions of the Redis open source data storage service can allow attackers to take full control of a host system, posing a significant threat to cloud ...

Redis has disclosed details of a maximum-severity security flaw in its in-memory database software that could result in remote code execution under certain circumstances. The vulnerability, tracked as ...

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In what is reportedly a world-first, ESET researchers have discovered PrompLock, a generative AI-powered ransomware implant currently in development. The researchers described it as the “first known ...

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UPDATE 9-5-25: The malware, referred to in the story as PromptLock, was found to be part of research being done by the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. ESET discovered the malware the ...

UPDATE (September 3 rd, 2025): ESET Research has been contacted by the authors of an academic study, Ransomware 3.0: Self-Composing and LLM-Orchestrated, whose research prototype closely resembles the ...