July 7, 2026

An AI agent just ran a full ransomware attack with no human at the keyboard

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Security firm Sysdig says it has documented the first ransomware attack run end to end by an AI agent, first reported by Business Insider. A large language model planned, executed, and adapted the entire operation, which Sysdig has named JadePuffer....