ESET researchers have uncovered PromptLock, an early proof-of-concept ransomware that leverages a large language model to generate attack scripts. In an article for ReversingLabs, Bob Erdman, associate vice president of development at Fortra, shared his perspective on what this means for the threat landscape.
Originally published in Reversing Labs.
Excerpt: ”This new trend will most likely result in more sophisticated ransomware and a leveling of the field among malicious actor capabilities, potentially fragmenting the ecosystem even more as other new actors acquire the more advanced capabilities that they currently are paying for from others.”