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Analyzing the Current State of AI Use in Malware
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 published a threat-research analysis examining how malware authors are currently incorporating generative AI and LLMs (such as ChatGPT) into their tooling, referencing observed samples including infostealers and Sliver-based implants. The piece assesses the practical maturity and limitations of AI use in real-world malware based on analyzed artifacts. Details →First reported checkpoint.com
Browser-Only Ransomware: From LLM Hallucinations to a Practical Attack Technique - Check Point Research
Check Point Research (Alexey Bukhteyev) describes how DeepSeek turned an unrealistic AI-generated browser-malware hallucination into a plausible browser-native ransomware technique that abuses Chrome's File System Access API. The demonstrated PoC uses a fake AI image-enhancement workflow to socially engineer users into granting folder-level access to photo directories on Android, requiring no native payload, APK install, browser exploit, or root. Details →First reported arxiv.org
AI-Generated PowerShell Malware: An Experimental Framework and Dataset
Researchers Pianese, Orbinato, Liguori, and Natella present an experimental framework (arXiv:2606.30819) to assess LLM-generated PowerShell malware, including a novel sandbox for dynamic analysis and a manually curated, natural-language-annotated dataset of real-world PowerShell malware. Their evaluation of permissive open-weight LLMs adapted for malware generation found high similarity between real and AI-generated malware, with a median Jaccard index of 84.5% for triggered OS malicious events. Details →How the wire is made
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