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August 2025

Someone Created First AI-Powered Ransomware Using OpenAI’s gpt-oss:20b Model

Someone Created 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…