AI-Generated Browser Ransomware Abuses Chromium API on Windows and Android

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AI-Generated Browser Ransomware Abuses Chromium API on Windows and Android
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Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware artifact generated using DeepSeek that constructed a novel attack path combining "unrealistic browser-malware concepts with a real browser capability" to turn it into a working ransomware technique that runs entirely inside the browser on both Windows and Android devices. "This is the first documented case where a frontier AI model

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