A threat actor has published hundreds of fake GitHub repositories impersonating legitimate software and security projects to ...

A new Mac infostealer dubbed PamStealer impersonates the open-source Maccy clipboard manager to steal passwords and more.

Everything is dumb again. This week feels broken in a very familiar way. Old tricks are back. New tools are doing shady crap. Supply chains got hit. Fake help desks worked. Weird research showed how ...

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 ...

Google has discovered a new breed of AI-powered malware that uses large language models (LLMs) during execution to dynamically generate malicious scripts and evade detection. A Google Threat ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...