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New ENCFORGE Ransomware Targets AI Model Files in Langflow RCE Attack

The Hacker News·July 21, 2026·1 min read
New ENCFORGE Ransomware Targets AI Model Files in Langflow RCE Attack

Researchers at Sysdig have linked a second attack on the same Langflow server to JADEPUFFER, the AI-agent-driven operator it first documented earlier this month. The same operator has now been spotted deploying ENCFORGE, a new compiled Go ransomware designed to encrypt model weights, vector indexes, training datasets, and other AI infrastructure files across the host filesystem.

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