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Ransomware gangs are going after VPNs, and an AI just ran its own attack
Ransomware attacks rose for the fourth month in a row in June, with criminals targeting the devices companies use to connect remote workers. A new AI-driven attack completed an entire break-in with no human at the keyboard.
ENCFORGE: The Ransomware That Goes After AI Brains, Not Your Spreadsheets
Sysdig says the same crew that broke into a Langflow server earlier this month is back, and this time it encrypts model weights instead of office files.
AI-hunting ransomware 'EncForge' locks up model files as JadePuffer agent adapts on the fly
The autonomous attacker rewrote its own delivery script six times in five minutes before encrypting a Langflow server's machine-learning assets.
AI Agents Are Now Running Entire Cyberattacks, Start to Finish
Two separate investigations show that criminals are handing whole attack campaigns to artificial intelligence, cutting the time it takes to ransack a company from weeks to hours.
US cyber agency gives federal staff four days to patch Langflow AI tool being actively hacked
CISA added an authorisation bypass in the popular AI-agent builder Langflow to its must-patch list after Sysdig spotted attackers stealing cloud keys and hijacking servers.
Hackers Race to Exploit Gitea Flaw That Lets Anyone Log In as Admin
A missing check in Gitea's Docker images let attackers claim any username by adding a single header. Sysdig says probing began within days of the patch.
An AI Agent Broke Into a Server, Taught Itself to Adapt, and Left a Ransom Note
Security firm Sysdig says it has documented the first fully autonomous AI-driven ransomware attack, where a program called JadePuffer broke into a database, encrypted thousands of records, and demanded Bitcoin payment without a human criminal directing any step.
Sysdig Flags 'JADEPUFFER' as First End-to-End AI-Run Ransomware Attack
Researchers say a large language model handled intrusion, lateral movement and destruction of a production database without a human at the keyboard.