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MIT Sloan Withdraws AI Ransomware Paper After Criticism

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MIT Sloan has withdrawn a working paper that claimed 80% of ransomware attacks are driven by AI after facing criticism from cybersecurity experts, including Kevin Beaumont and Marcus Hutchins. The paper, co-authored with Safe Security, analyzed over 2800 ransomware incidents but was criticized for lack of academic rigor and factual inaccuracies.

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