#aiworm — Public Fediverse posts

The scientists warn: “We must prepare for autonomous generative adversaries: malware systems that propagate without human operators and are defined not by fixed exploit code but by the capacity to reason about targets, adapt to observations, and synthesize attack logic in real time.”

https://www.heise.de/en/news/IT-researchers-demonstrate-adaptive-AI-worm-11318259.html

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Here Come the #AI #Worms
#Security researchers created #AIworm in a test environment that can automatically spread between #generativeAI agents—potentially stealing data and sending spam emails.
To create #MorrisII, researchers turned to a so-called “adversarial self-replicating prompt.” This is a prompt that triggers the generative AI model to output, in its response, another prompt. In short, #AI system is told to produce a set of further instructions in its replies.
https://www.wired.com/story/here-come-the-ai-worms/

#AIworm infects users via #AI-enabled #emailclients — #MorrisII #generativeAI worm steals confidential data as it spreads
Named 'Morris II' after original Morris, first computer worm that created a worldwide nuisance online in 1988. This worm targets AI apps and AI-enabled email assistants that generate text and images using models like #GeminiPro, #ChatGPT4.0, and #LLaVA. Researchers successfully tested this Morris II #worm and published its findings using two methods.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-worm-infects-users-via-ai-enabled-email-clients-morris-ii-generative-ai-worm-steals-confidential-data-as-it-spreads