How AI-powered ransomware could destroy your business

How AI-powered Ransomware Could Destroy Your Business

A British transport company, KNP Logistics Group, collapsed after a devastating security breach that left over 700 employees jobless due to a ransomware attack.

"If you're reading this it means the internal infrastructure of your company is fully or partially dead, all your backups — virtual, physical — everything that we managed to reach are completely removed."

The attack was carried out by the Akira ransomware group, utilizing advanced technology such as PassGAN, a generative adversarial network (GAN) that guesses passwords, which when combined with Hashcat can match up to 73 percent more passwords than when using HashCat alone.

Author's summary: AI-powered ransomware threatens businesses.

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The Register The Register — 2025-10-16

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