A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has discovered a new class of cyberthreat that gives hackers more power and reach at far less cost. It can be built with free AI models. Every online ...

In cybersecurity, few words trigger more dread than ‘wormable’—a vulnerability that could be weaponized into a self-spreading worm. Now researchers at the University of Toronto have demonstrated ...

AI-powered malware is a growing threat, but the extent of that threat was nebulous until researchers from the University of Toronto, Vector Institute, and CleverHans Lab presented a new PoC (proof of ...

The hunt is on to find protections against the coming generation of adaptive AI worm malware in order to head off a global incident on the scale of other famous worm events, such as NotPetya, Stuxnet, ...

“Traditional worms can be stopped by patching the specific vulnerability they exploit. Our adaptive worm cannot be stopped this way: it uses a recursive reasoning loop to detect and exploit diverse ...

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 ...

Spread the love“`html The realm of cybersecurity has always been a battleground, with hackers and defenders locked in a constant struggle for supremacy. However, a recent announcement from the ...

University of Toronto researchers demonstrate how open-weight local LLMs can be used to autonomously exploit flaws and misconfigurations typical found in most enterprise networks, feeding off abused ...

On November 2, 1988, graduate student Robert Morris released a self-replicating program into the early Internet. Within 24 hours, the Morris worm had infected roughly 10 percent of all connected ...