3AM ransomware encrypts around 37 machines at UK school estate, Bitdefender says
Researchers believe an automated, AI-style command loop may have driven the intrusion, but say they could not document the model behind it
A 3AM ransomware affiliate encrypted roughly 37 of nearly 50 machines it reached at a UK school estate, in an intrusion that Bitdefender researchers believe may have been carried out with AI-generated commands and an automated agentic loop. The activity ran from September 10 to 19, but Bitdefender could not establish the attacker’s initial access method.