AI-Generated Browser Ransomware Abuses Chromium API on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android

By info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

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