Threat researchers discovered the first AI-powered ransomware, called PromptLock, that uses Lua scripts to steal and encrypt data on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. The malware uses OpenAI’s ...

Welcome to the official repository for Krnl, a Lua script injector designed for Roblox game development. Krnl is a powerful tool that assists developers in creating and testing custom Lua scripts ...

Researchers discover new PromptLock ransomware PromptLock is AI powered - presenting new concerns for security teams AI is already shaking up the cyber landscape Security researchers from ESET have ...

ESET Research discovers PromptLock, a new type of ransomware using GenAI to execute attacks. The malware runs a locally accessible AI language model to generate malicious Lua scripts in real time, ...

UPDATE (September 3 rd, 2025): ESET Research has been contacted by the authors of an academic study, Ransomware 3.0: Self-Composing and LLM-Orchestrated, whose research prototype closely resembles the ...

ESET says PromptLock runs gpt-oss:20b locally on an infected device to help it generate malicious code using hardcoded text prompts, though it might be a proof of concept. Don't miss out on our latest ...

As cybercrime surges around the world, new research increasingly shows that ransomware is evolving as a result of widely available generative AI tools. In some cases, attackers are using AI to draft ...

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 ...

Proof-of-concept ransomware uses AI models to generate attack scripts in real time. AI-powered malware is closer than expected, as the first known ransomware family to rely on AI systems for local ...