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.

University of Toronto researchers built a worm powered by open-weight AI that adapts to its targets. Experts say it changes ...

A team of researchers have shown how a self-replicating AI agent can take over a computer network at almost no cost.

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 ...

Researchers demonstrated an AI worm that adapts to targets, generates attack strategies, and spreads across networks without ...

Ontario cybersecurity expert Ali Dehghantanha offers advice after University of Toronto researchers uncovered an AI worm that ...

An AI-driven worm using a local open-weight LLM autonomously exploited and replicated across 62% of a 33-host test network in ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto showed how hackers could use artificial intelligence to create a program that could target any known flaw in the world's computers.

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 ...