Chinese researchers have shown that AI models have the capacity to act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses.

What happens when you use AI to create a self-replicating computer worm? A group of researchers did just that, developing a prototype AI-driven worm that could adapt and infect a network of Windows- ...

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

A computer worm is a type of malware whose primary function is to self-replicate and infect other computers while remaining active on infected systems. A computer worm duplicates itself to spread to ...

Future computer worms could be programmed to attack only within a particular country, according to a leading computer security expert. Jonathan Wignall, of the UK’s Data and Network Security Research ...

That’s actually good news, though, since more traditional computer worms, such as the 2017 WannaCry attack, were able to spread globally within hours. In contrast, the AI-powered worm “requires ...