Researchers at the University of Toronto say their project highlights the risk of open-weight AI models being weaponized. The worm was able to spread over a network with no human guidance.

The difference between a virus and a worm is not semantic. A virus waits for a user to trigger it; a worm exploits ...

You’d think keeping things secure would be easy, with artificial intelligence getting sharper every day. I mean, if it can crank out intricate code in no time, fending off cyber crooks should be a ...

AI-powered computer worms herald ‘new era’ of cybersecurity threats - Worms with access to AI chatbots can adapt and gather information and then use that against further targets – without the need for ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today the release of a DHS-developed detection tool that can be used by the federal government, commercial vendors, state and local governments ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. University of Toronto researchers demonstrated an AI-driven worm that exploited nearly three-quarters of a simulated corporate ...

Computer worms operating in tandem with free AI chatbots like ChatGPT are a “new class of cyberthreat”, security experts have warned. Worms are a type of malware that self-replicate and spread across ...