AI agent executes first known ransomware attack, but the humans haven’t left the building

An AI agent carried out the technical execution of a real-world ransomware attack for the first known time, but new details show a human still chose the victim, set up the infrastructure, and supplied stolen credentials — meaning it wasn't quite the fully autonomous cybercrime debut that last week's headlines suggested.

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The nature of security threats is changing. AI hasn’t just driven up energy prices and consumer electronics costs, it’s also ushering in a new era of AI-augmented cyberattacks, one where the time between a flaw being discovered and being exploited is shrinking fast. Apple is already signaling that it sees this coming. Why Apple moved first The company has begun accelerating the release of security updates specifically to counter AI-assisted hacking. This week’s patch was pushed out ahead of Apple’s usual schedule, and the company told Reuters it’s adapting to a reality in which artificial intelligence can speed up the development of malicious tools.  The logic is simple. If an AI system can find a flaw for one user, it can identify vulnerabilities for other users; that’s a benefit for well-resourced attackers prepared to move fast once a vulnerability becomes public. Hackers are, after all, one group in tech that really doesn’t worry much about moving fast and breaking things. Apple sa

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