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

University of Toronto researchers unveil AI-driven malware capable of autonomous spread, real-time adaptation, and near-zero ...

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

Researchers demonstrate malware that adapts to targets, spreads autonomously and operates at near-zero cost to attackers.

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

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

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

A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has discovered a new class of cyberthreat that gives hackers more power ...

IT researchers tested whether AI makes malware a worse threat. A worm developed in the process is highly adaptable.

Researchers created an AI-powered worm that that can spread through networks with no human intervention.

In the past couple of weeks, ASU found a worm in its Apples. And its PCs, too. A virus known as SOBIG.F has infected computers all over the country, flooding Web sites and clogging up the Internet.