News

An AI agent just ran a full ransomware attack with no human at the keyboard

  • Ana Maria Constantin--The Next Web
  • published date: 2026-07-06 18:59:54 UTC

Security firm Sysdig says it has documented the first ransomware attack run end to end by an AI agent, first reported by Business Insider. A large language model planned, executed, and adapted the entire operation, which Sysdig has named JadePuffer. The agent…

TL;DR Security firm Sysdig says it documented the first fully agentic ransomware attack, dubbed JadePuffer, in which an AI agent planned and executed an entire database-extortion operation with no h… [+2583 chars]