Have we reached true anonymous AI? #cybersecurity #ai

PromptLock ransomware represents a chilling evolution: AI that makes real-time decisions about your data.

Unlike traditional ransomware that blindly encrypts everything, this malware uses a locally-hosted LLM to analyze file contents and decide whether to exfiltrate or encrypt based on what it finds. It's essentially agentic AI making autonomous threat decisions.

As Matt points out, defenders can learn from these same AI techniques to improve their own detection and response capabilities. We're witnessing the dawn of truly autonomous cyber threats that adapt their approach based on what they discover.

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