Someone Created the 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-tim...