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

University of Toronto researchers built a worm powered by open-weight AI that adapts to its targets. Experts say it changes ...

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

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

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

As demonstrated by the prototype created by the researchers, AI can make worms more dangerous by allowing them to adapt on ...

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

With the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence, the cybersecurity landscape is facing unprecedented AI-powered cyber ...

You’d think keeping things secure would be easy, with artificial intelligence getting sharper every day. I mean, if it can crank out intricate code in no time, fending off cyber crooks should be a ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The worldwide cost of the Code Red worms that crawled rampantly throughout the Internet in July and August has reached about $2.6 billion, an independent research firm said last week.

Uncertainty surrounded the notorious computer worm Tuesday, the day before it was set to activate on potentially millions of machines. Yet computer professionals, including Gavin Manes, founder of ...

A new worm that exploits a widespread vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.’s Windows operating system continued its spread today, making the outbreak the most serious since the appearance of the SQL ...