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

Researchers demonstrated an AI worm that adapts to targets, generates attack strategies, and spreads across networks without ...

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

An AI-driven worm using a local open-weight LLM autonomously exploited and replicated across 62% of a 33-host test network in ...

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

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

The Miasma credential-stealing attack framework, which has recently targeted open-source ecosystems through supply-chain ...

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 ...

University of Toronto researchers demonstrate how open-weight local LLMs can be used to autonomously exploit flaws and ...