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First AI-Agent Ransomware Destroyed Data Even Payment Could Not Recover

a laptop screen with a webpage of the IT Army of Ukraine group of volunteer hackers. The IT Army of Ukraine first set up in the wake of Russia's devastating attack, and has since hugely grown in ...
winbuzzer.com

JADEPUFFER: The First Documented Agentic AI Ransomware Operation

Sysdig says JADEPUFFER may be the first agentic ransomware case, exposing how AI agents can turn old credential failures into database destruction. JADEPUFFER is a warning about exposed AI ...
The Hacker News

AI Agent Exploits Langflow RCE to Automate Database Ransomware Attack

Sysdig says JADEPUFFER used CVE-2025-3248 in Langflow to automate intrusion, credential theft, encryption, and data wipe.

Smooth AI criminal drives 'first' end-to-end agentic ransomware attack

They're not bad; they're just prompted that way. Sysdig threat hunters documented what they say is the first-ever documented ...
IEEE

AI-Driven Protocol-Level Security Measurement in IoT Applications Using S-AES Encryption and Python-Based Implementation

Abstract: The speedy enlargement of the Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized contemporary verbal exchange networks with the useful resource of interconnecting billions of gadgets all through ...
USA Today

Invasive Burmese pythons may have met their match – opossums

Wildlife researchers have found an unconventional way to help control invasive Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades – by using one of the snakes’ favorite prey. Opossums are a key food source for ...
IEEE

Hybrid AES-RSA Encryption Framework for Privacy-Preserving Cloud Database Storage

Abstract: In this paper, Cloud databases offer scalability and convenience, cloud database introduce risks regarding data privacy, unauthorized access and data tampering. In response to the present ...
Science Daily

A 200-year-old light trick just transformed quantum encryption

Scientists have unveiled a new approach to ultra-secure communication that could make quantum encryption simpler and more efficient than ever before. By harnessing a 19th-century optics phenomenon ...
TechRepublic

Instagram Users Urged to Save Encrypted DMs Before Feature Disappears

Meta will soon end Instagram’s end-to-end encrypted chats, citing low adoption and directing users to export affected messages. Instagram users who opted for extra privacy in their DMs may want to ...
InfoWorld

What I learned using Claude Sonnet to migrate Python to Rust

If there’s one universal experience with AI-powered code development tools, it’s how they feel like magic until they don’t. One moment, you’re watching an AI agent slurp up your codebase and deliver a ...
Forbes

AI Data Centers Are An Environmental Catastrophe—More Efficient Data Encryption Could Make A Big Difference

Artificial intelligence has an energy problem. According to McKinsey, AI data centers will account for up to 12% of the world’s total electricity consumption by 2030. This isn’t a problem we can ...