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Hackers Use AI-Driven Ransomware Attack to Encrypt 37 Systems Across UK Schools

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A 3 AM (ThreeAM) ransomware affiliate breached a UK school estate and encrypted about 37 systems. Bitdefender describes the operation as hybrid: a human operator set the goals, and an agentic loop appears to have handled repetitive command execution. The intrusion relied almost entirely on living-off-the-land binaries, including PowerShell, WMI, reg, netsh, and rundll32. The […] The post Hackers Use AI-Driven Ransomware Attack to Encrypt 37 Systems Across UK Schools appeared first on Cyber Security News .

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