Check Point Research recently uncovered something that changes how we think about AI-assisted threats: a malware sample in which an AI model independently connected a theoretical browser risk to a working ransomware technique, with no exploit, no app installation, and no technical expertise required from the attacker. A Noisy Sample With One Dangerous Idea While analyzing nearly 3,000 DeepSeek-attributed files from public telemetry, our researchers came across a Python Flask application that looked, at first, like a textbook AI hallucination. It tried to pack a keylogger, credential stealer, webcam capture, and ransomware overlay into a single web page — most […]
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