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PROMPTLOCK

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The items that name it 3

  • Machine Speed is a lie: stop trying to fight AI with AI
    article2026-09-03It is written here as PromptLock (dubbed 'the first AI-powered ransomware'; turned out to be a New York university research project, never deployed in a real-world attack).

    dubbed 'the first AI-powered ransomware'; turned out to be a New York university research project, never deployed in a real-world attack

  • AI Security Briefing
    writeup2026-07-18

    Billed by ESET researchers (flagged August 2025) as the first AI-powered ransomware; later revealed to be a lab prototype from NYU called Ransomware 3.0, not a real attack.

  • CAIRN — Cisco Talos AI-Malware-Hunting Toolkit
    repo

    Go/Lua LLM-directed ransomware family; archetype A1; documented in docs/families/PROMPTLOCK.md

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