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. By Cade Metz Cade Metz has ...

A new study shows that computer malware powered by easily accessible artificial intelligence models is here—the research is a “wake-up call” to take cybersecurity risks from AI more seriously, one ...

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 ...

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- ...

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