What CISOs Need to Know About Ransomware: The AI Revolution Behind the Threat

This report examines how artificial intelligence is accelerating ransomware into a faster, more adaptive threat—enabling automated reconnaissance, hyper-personalized phishing, and Just-in-Time LLM-generated malware that can evade EDR—while increasing the risk of cascading supply-chain disruptions; it urges CISOs to adopt AI-driven detection and response, enforce zero-trust and vendor risk management, and regularly test backups and recovery to build resilience.