An AI agent executed the first known ransomware attack, hunting for crypto wallets and seed phrases. Here's what it means for digital asset security.

Researchers identified what they believe is the first documented case of a ransomware operation, JadePuffer, conducted entirely by a large language model (LLM) agent.

A ransomware strain that reportedly lets an AI agent run the attack has arrived. The temptation is to pin it on a famous frontier model. The evidence refuses to let you.