AI Ransomware Attack: 5 Critical Legal Risks

AI ransomware attack — a business owner reviewing a data breach alert on a locked server screen in a professional office

The most important business-law story of the week is not a smarter chatbot — it is a criminal one. Security researchers have documented what they describe as the first fully autonomous AI ransomware attack: an artificial-intelligence agent that broke into a live production database, stole credentials, encrypted the data, and left a Bitcoin ransom demand […]