What happens when you use AI to create a self-replicating computer worm? A group of researchers did just that, developing a prototype AI-driven worm that could adapt and infect a network of Windows- ...

The difference between a virus and a worm is not semantic. A virus waits for a user to trigger it; a worm exploits ...

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 ...

Computer worms operating in tandem with free AI chatbots like ChatGPT are a “new class of cyberthreat”, security experts have warned. Worms are a type of malware that self-replicate and spread across ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. University of Toronto researchers demonstrated an AI-driven worm that exploited nearly three-quarters of a simulated corporate ...

DETROIT -- A computer worm temporarily halted production at 13 of DaimlerChrysler AG's U.S. plants this week, but the company says the damage was minimal and it expects to make up the lost production.

An e-mail worm with a Sept. 11 theme has been discovered on computer systems in Europe, according to a statement from F-Secure Corp. and other security companies. The worm, called W32/Chet-A or “Chet, ...