Cybersecurity firm says it found 'the first documented case' of AI agentic ransomware
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Agentic ransomware is the nightmare scenario security teams have been modeling — malware that can adapt, plan, and iterate without human operators. If you own critical infrastructure or high-value data, assume dwell time and attack creativity just went up and revisit your assumptions about what “automated” defense needs to look like.
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