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Nevada Politics · NevadaA cyberattack caused Nevada’s state offices to close for two days this week and rendered some state websites and phone lines unavailable, the governor’s office said Tuesday.See the Story
Cyberattack shuts down Nevada state offices for two days, governor's office says
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OpenAIAs if there weren't enough privacy concerns in the world, AI ransomware is now reportedly a thing. Cybersecurity firm ESET said that it discovered the first-ever AI-powered ransomware, which it has dubbed PromptLock. "The PromptLock malware uses the gpt-oss:20b model from OpenAI locally via the Ollama API to generate malicious Lua scripts on the fly, which it then executes," the company wrote. The ransomware, according to ESET, runs locally on d…See the Story
Warning: AI-Powered Ransomware Is Real and in the Wild
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