The little snippet of Python code strikes fast and nasty, taking less than three hours to complete a ransomware attack from initial breach to encryption. Researchers have discovered a new Python ...

Operators of an unknown ransomware gang are using a Python script to encrypt virtual machines hosted on VMware ESXi servers. While the Python programming language is not commonly used in ransomware ...

MalTerminal, created before Nov 2023, shows earliest LLM-embedded malware, signaling new AI-driven cyber threats.

“While open-source malware is a threat, it also gives defenders opportunities to detect and mitigate these variations.

In essence, MalTerminal is a malware generator. When adversaries bring it up, it asks if they want to create a ransomware encryptor, or a reverse shell. The prompt is then sent to the GPT-4 AI, which ...

Threat researchers at Sophos have identified a new strain of unusually fast-acting ransomware written in the Python programming language that has targeted VMware ESXi servers and virtual machines (VMs ...

Security researchers are warning that a new wave of LockBit ransomware variants is in the wild following a leak of the source code used by the prolific ransomware gang last year. First emerging in ...

The Russian-linked cyber crime gang associated with carrying out a major ransomware attack against a software company used a code that avoids targeting systems that use Russian and other former Soviet ...