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KnowBe4 Predicts Agentic AI Ransomware is ‘imminent on International Anti-Ransomware Day’

KnowBe4 Predicts Agentic AI Ransomware is ‘imminent on International Anti-Ransomware Day’

2025-05-12  Per Henrikson

AI agentic ransomware is a collection of AI bots that perform all the steps necessary to conduct a successful ransomware attack, only faster and better. The AI-enabled agentic ransomware will gain initial access, analyse the environment, determine how to maximise malicious hacker profits, and implement the attacks. And it will not be just one attack, but a series of escalating attacks to maximise a malicious hacker’s profit.


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