AI-Powered Ransomware Has Arrived With 'PromptLock'

**Executive Summary:** ESET researchers analyzed a proof-of-concept AI-driven ransomware dubbed "PromptLock" (aka "Ransomware 3.0") that leverages a local GPT-style model via the Ollama API to generate Lua scripts for real-time file exfiltration and encryption; samples for Windows and Linux were uploaded to VirusTotal, but there is no evidence of active exploitation in the wild.