AI is touted for many things, and slammed for others.It is a tool, and businesses are using it to make advances, and I have been suggesting we all get better at using it. Apparently, some hackers have taken that thought to heart, and have developed an AI-generated malware called PromptLock, which leverages scripts from prompts to look through your drive, inspect files, move data, and encrypt files. The good news is that this appears to be more of a proof-of-concept, than something that is fully operational and in the wild, but what this means is that we are getting close to smarter and more efficient malware than we’ve seen before. Consider this new vector to represent yet another thing to keep you on your security toes, conscious of what the bad guys are looking to do to mess with our lives.
‘PromptLock’ could be a serious problem
Source: The first AI-powered ransomware has been spotted – and here’s why we should all be worried
