{"id":221078,"date":"2025-08-28T03:19:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/experimental-promptlock-ransomware-uses-ai-to-encrypt-steal-data"},"modified":"2025-08-28T03:19:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:19:50","slug":"experimental-promptlock-ransomware-uses-ai-to-encrypt-steal-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/experimental-promptlock-ransomware-uses-ai-to-encrypt-steal-data","title":{"rendered":"Experimental PromptLock ransomware uses AI to encrypt, steal data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experimental-promptlock-ransomware-uses-ai-to-encrypt-steal-data.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The malware uses OpenAI\u2019s gpt-oss:20b model through the Ollama API to dynamically generate the malicious Lua scripts from hard-coded prompts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s gpt-oss:20b model through the Ollama API to dynamically generate the malicious Lua scripts from hard-coded prompts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1625,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}