interview It all started as an idea for a research paper.

Within a week, however, it nearly set the security industry on fire over what was believed to be the first-ever AI-powered ransomware.

A group of New York University engineers who had been studying the newest, most sophisticated ransomware strains along with advances in large language models and AI decided to look at the intersection between the two, develop a proof-of-concept for a full-scale, AI-driven ransomware attack - and hopefully have their research selected for presentation at an upcoming security conference.

"There's this gap between these two technologies," NYU engineering student and doctoral candidate Md Raz told The Register . "And we think there's a viable threat here. How feasible is an attack that uses AI to do t

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