Researchers at the University of Toronto say their project highlights the risk of open-weight AI models being weaponized. The ...

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

Researchers at the University of Toronto showed how hackers could use artificial intelligence to create a program that could ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered an AI-powered worm that can spread across computer systems without ...

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

A computer worm is a form of malware that, once it has infected a computer, continues to replicate itself on the infected computer as well as automatically infecting other computers it comes in ...

In the study, researchers created an AI-powered computer “worm” designed to attack and spread between devices—revealing a ...

Once inside a computer network, the worm uses the processing power of the system for reasoning and then identifying its next ...

Computer security technologists are racing to find ways to block ever-more complex computer worms and viruses that burrow into computers -- usually via e-mail -- and wreak havoc on network systems.

According to a new alert by Sophos today, a newly discovered worm, called the Rbot-GR worm or W32/Rbot-GR worm, spreads via network shares, exploiting several Microsoft security vulnerabilities, ...

our ability to protect the Net. the heart of the Internet were affected Saturday by what experts are calling the worst worm since Code Red in 2001. A worm that attacks Microsoft's database software ...