Researchers say an AI agent just ran a ransomware attack from start to finish, with no human at the keyboard

Security firm Sysdig documented the first ransomware attack fully executed by an AI agent named JADEPUFFER, which exploited a known vulnerability to infiltrate a network, steal credentials, and encrypt a company's database without human intervention. The AI generated an unrecoverable encryption key, making ransom payment ineffective, and deleted data without evidence of exfiltration.