{"id":286240,"date":"2026-07-06T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/researchers-claim-first-fully-agentic-ransomware-jadepuffer\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T06:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T10:35:08","slug":"researchers-claim-first-fully-agentic-ransomware-jadepuffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/researchers-claim-first-fully-agentic-ransomware-jadepuffer\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Claim First Fully Agentic Ransomware: JadePuffer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/researchers-first-agentic\/\">Researchers Claim First Fully Agentic Ransomware: JadePuffer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/researchers-first-agentic\/\">https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/researchers-first-agentic\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-06 04:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.infosecurity-magazine.com\">www.infosecurity-magazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cloud security firm Sysdig has released details on what it claims to be the world\u2019s first ransomware campaign completely driven by a large language model (LLM).<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed JadePuffer, the campaign\u00a0targeted an internet-facing Langflow instance by exploiting\u00a0CVE-2025-3248. It then\u00a0ran \u201can adaptive and fully automated campaign\u201d which resulted\u00a0in \u201ca destructive database-extortion playbook against the victim&#8217;s production database server,\u201d according to Sysdig&#8217;s Threat Research Team.<\/p>\n<p>Attack capabilities were delivered by an agent rather than a human-driven toolkit, the Sysdig research claimed, and the AI was capable of working autonomously retrying failed steps within refined parameters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn one sequence, it went from a failed login to a working fix in 31 second,\u201d Sysdig said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on AI: Researchers Discover First Reported AI-Powered Ransomware.<\/p>\n<p>The multi-stage attack began with several elements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Langflow access via vulnerability exploitation<\/li>\n<li>Reconnaissance and credential harvesting (LLM APIs, cloud credentials, database credentials etc)<\/li>\n<li>Local data theft including Langflow&#8217;s own backing Postgres database<\/li>\n<li>Lateral discovery for services reachable from the Langflow host<\/li>\n<li>MinIO object-store enumeration and credential harvest<\/li>\n<li>Creation of cron job on the Langlow server for persistence<\/li>\n<li>Access to\u00a0a production MySQL server running Alibaba Nacos (Naming and Configuration Service), using root credentials<\/li>\n<li>Targeting of Nacos with various payloads including exploitation of CVE-2021-29441<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mass data destruction appears to have been the aim. The JadePuffer attackers encrypted all 1342 Nacos service configuration items and deleted the originals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCritically, the AES key was generated as\u00a0base64(uuid4().bytes + uuid4().bytes), which is essentially random, and printed to\u00a0stdout\u00a0but never persisted or transmitted. The victim cannot recover the encrypted configurations even with payment,\u201d Sysdig explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCaptured payloads show the LLM&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/researchers-first-agentic\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers Claim First Fully Agentic Ransomware: JadePuffer https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/researchers-first-agentic\/ Publish Date: 2026-07-06 04:30:00 Source Domain: www.infosecurity-magazine.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.infosecurity-magazine.com\/webpage\/og\/046ad03f-1010-4fda-9489-c06aaee6586d.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,18,17,27],"class_list":["post-286240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-large-language-model","tag-llm","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286242,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286240\/revisions\/286242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}