{"id":6496,"date":"2025-08-28T11:04:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T11:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/28\/first-ai-powered-ransomware-promptlock\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T11:04:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T11:04:33","slug":"first-ai-powered-ransomware-promptlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/28\/first-ai-powered-ransomware-promptlock\/","title":{"rendered":"First AI-Powered Ransomware \u201cPromptLock\u201d Uses OpenAI gpt-oss-20b for Encryption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    First AI-Powered Ransomware \u201cPromptLock\u201d Uses OpenAI gpt-oss-20b for Encryption<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>PromptLock, a novel ransomware strain discovered by the ESET Research team, marks the first known instance of malware harnessing a local large language model&#8230;<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gbhackers.com\/first-ai-powered-ransomware-promptlock\/\">Go to gbhackers.com<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First AI-Powered Ransomware \u201cPromptLock\u201d Uses OpenAI gpt-oss-20b for Encryption PromptLock, a novel ransomware strain discovered by the ESET Research team, marks the first known instance of malware harnessing a local large language model&#8230; Go to gbhackers.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-6496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gbhackers","tag-gbhackers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}