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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Security researchers are tracking holiday attacks by the Storm Worm, a particularly insidious piece of computer malware that has been circulating around the world for about a year. Earlier this week, ...

The Internet will mark an infamous anniversary on Sunday, when the Morris worm turns 20. Considered the first major attack on the ‘Net, the Morris worm served as a wake-up call to the Internet ...