{
 "public_id": "AIR-2025-0058",
 "incident_id": "2025-07-eclecticiq-global-group-ai-negotiation",
 "date_disclosed": "2025-07-16",
 "date_occurred": "2025-06-02",
 "title": "GLOBAL GROUP RaaS advertised AI-driven chatbots to run ransom negotiations for affiliates",
 "class": "in_the_wild",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "raas_platform_feature",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "automated_victim_negotiation",
  "multilingual_persuasion"
 ],
 "target_product": "GLOBAL GROUP ransomware-as-a-service panel",
 "target_vendor": "criminal operator '$$$'",
 "autonomy_level": "semi_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "extortion",
  "ransomware"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "17 victims claimed by 14 July 2025 across Australian and US healthcare, UK automotive services and industrial firms",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI02"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "ai_negotiation",
   "raas",
   "rebrand_of_blacklock"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": null,
 "defense_bypassed": null,
 "fix_shipped": null,
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://blog.eclecticiq.com/global-group-emerging-ransomware-as-a-service"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "features an automated system powered by AI-driven chatbots",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "impact_realized is true for the ransomware operation (17 named victims), NOT for the AI negotiation feature specifically - the AI-chatbot negotiation capability is advertised on the affiliate panel and described by the operator, and EclecticIQ did not observe a completed AI-run negotiation with a victim. This is the most-cited 'autonomous ransomware negotiation' claim and it rests largely on criminal marketing. Assessed medium confidence as a BlackLock/Mamona rebrand.",
 "risk_category": "security_fraud",
 "risk_secondary": [
  "brand_trust"
 ],
 "risk_subcategory": "Ransomware & Extortion",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": true,
 "agency_reason": "AI chatbots conducted ransom negotiations with victims",
 "vector_family": "other",
 "vector_detail": "raas_platform_feature",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "unknown"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI02",
 "agent_framework": "unknown",
 "model_provider": "openai",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "unknown",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "unsafe_actuation",
 "eai_domain": "agent_behaviour",
 "eai_secondary": [],
 "eai_reason": "subcategory: Ransomware & Extortion",
 "asi_curated": [],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "rule",
 "asi_reason": "ASI02 (eai_category=unsafe_actuation)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}