While AI investment continues to grow, relatively few organizations consistently measure whether the technology's benefits justify its costs, according to consulting firm KPMG.
Cybersecurity company Flashpoint recently announced it has received U.S. Patent No. 12,705,360 for its Ransomware Risk model, a methodology designed to help security teams determine which newly disclosed vulnerabilities more closely resemble those historically used in ransomware attacks.
Threat researchers at cloud security firm Sysdig have disclosed what they describe as the first documented ransomware operation carried out end-to-end by an autonomous AI agent, with no human typing commands or directing individual steps once the attack was underway.
Businesses are reporting benefits from artificial intelligence even as their data preparation and oversight processes remain incomplete, according to a survey by data and AI services provider Further.