This Week in Cybersecurity: The First Fully AI-Run Ransomware Attack, 3.8-Million-Record Breach, and a Device Proxy Botnet Goes Dark

This week, researchers at Sysdig disclosed the first documented ransomware operation run start to finish by a large language model with no human at the keyboard — an agent that broke into an exposed server, stole credentials, moved laterally, and encrypted a production database using a key it never bothered to save, making the data unrecoverable even if the victim pays. That wasn’t the only story about attackers turning trust into leverage: Medtronic began notifying 3.8 million people that ShinyHunters walked out with their personal and medical information back in April, a Fortinet credential-