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The Era of AI-Generated Ransomware Has Arrived
Cybercriminals are increasingly using generative AI tools to fuel their attacks, with new research finding instances of AI being used to develop ransomware.
Anthropic’s findings add to separate research this week from the security firm ESET that highlights an apparent proof of concept for a type of ransomware attack executed entirely by local LLMs running on a malicious server. According to Anthropic’s research, a cybercriminal threat actor based in the United Kingdom, which is tracked as GTG-5004 and has been active since the start of this year, used Claude to “develop, market, and distribute ransomware with advanced evasion capabilities.” The researchers say the malware, which largely runs locally on a machine and uses an open source AI model from OpenAI, can “generate malicious Lua scripts on the fly” and uses these to inspect files the hackers may be targeting, steal data, and deploy encryption.
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