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

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 API to generate malicious Lua scripts in real-time. The open-weight language model was released by OpenAI earlier this month. "PromptLock

from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2025/08/someone-created-first-ai-powered.html

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