E17: An AI Ran a Ransomware Attack... By Itself?

Security researchers documented what they assess to be the first ransomware attack run end to end by an AI agent, with no human at the keyboard, and the way it got in should make every small organization leader look twice at their own setup. In this episode I walk through what actually happened in plain language, including the moment the agent hit a wall and fixed its own mistake in thirty-one seconds. Then I separate what the research documented from what the headlines turned it into, because reading an AI claim carefully is a skill that outlasts any single news story. The real shift here is not that attackers got smarter, it is that the cost of running an attack collapsed, and being too small to bother with is no longer the protection it used to be. I close with four unglamorous things you can do this week without spending a dollar, plus the one question to ask whoever runs your technology.