Agentic Ransomware JADEPUFFER Uses Base64 Python Payloads to Harvest Cloud and API Keys

Cybersecuritynews •Tushar Subhra Dutta • July 2, 2026

Ransomware has always needed a human at the keyboard or writing the script behind it. That assumption no longer holds. Sysdig researchers have documented what appears to be the first fully autonomous ransomware operation, driven entirely by an AI agent rather than a person. The threat has been named JADEPUFFER, representing a new category of […]

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Agentic Ransomware JADEPUFFER Uses Base64 Python Payloads to Harvest Cloud and API Keys

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