A discovery by Anton Cherepanov, a researcher at ESET, has revealed what may be the first AI-powered ransomware variant, codenamed PromptLock . This aligns with predictions that generative AI would be used this year to facilitate malicious scripts and exploits. Written in Golang, the newly identified strain uses the gpt-oss:20b  model from OpenAI locally via the Ollama API to generate malicious Lua scripts in real time. The open-weight language model was released by OpenAI e