Post #3377444
2026-06-11 11:18 UTC
Researchers at the University of Toronto have built a worm that thinks for itself. Using free off-the-shelf AI models it works out how to break into each new computer it encounters, and hijacks the powerful ones to host its own AI brain.
And then the researchers discovered their creation had quietly removed the list of machines it wasn't supposed to attack...
https://grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-471/
Thanks to special guest James Ball for joining me on this episode of "Smashing Security".
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@twoowls73@mastodon.scot 2026-06-11 11:35
@gcluley@mastodon.green *blinks* say what now?
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@felis_catus_domesticus@toot.community 2026-06-11 18:03
@gcluley@mastodon.green