The crazy, true story behind the first AI-powered ransomware

An NYU Tandon research team that includes ECE doctoral candidate Md Raz developed "Ransomware 3.0," an AI-powered ransomware proof-of-concept that caused industry alarm when security analysts mistook it for real malware. "There's this gap between these two technologies," Raz said, referring to the unexplored intersection between advanced ransomware and AI capabilities. While their research binary won't function outside lab environments, Raz warned that real attackers are likely already developing similar AI-powered the. The Ransomware 3.0 paper’s senior authors are Ramesh Karri and Farshad Khorrami.. In addition to lead author Raz, the other authors include ECE Ph.D. candidate Meet Udeshi; ECE Postdoctoral Scholar Venkata Sai Charan Putrevu and ECE Senior Research Scientist Prashanth Krishnamurthy.