PromptLock

August 27, 2011 - Cybersecurity firm ESET published a blog post yesterday (August 26) reporting the discovery of the "world's first AI ransomware," named PromptLock, which invokes the gpt-oss:20b model to locally generate malicious Lua code on infected devices that can search for and encrypt files across Windows, Linux, and macOS systems. Windows, Linux, and macOS systems to search, steal, and encrypt files. 1AI cites a blog post that describes the program as using OpenAI's recently open-sourced gpt-oss:20b language model, which...