#morrisii — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #morrisii, aggregated by home.social.
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The rise of #Moltbook suggests viral #AIPrompts may be the next big #SecurityThreat
We don’t need self-replicating AI models to have problems, just self-replicating prompts.
Benj Edwards – Feb 3, 2026
Excerpt: "While 'prompt worm' might be a relatively new term we’re using related to this moment, the theoretical groundwork for AI worms was laid almost two years ago. In March 2024, security researchers Ben Nassi of Cornell Tech, Stav Cohen of the Israel Institute of Technology, and Ron Bitton of Intuit published a paper demonstrating what they called 'Morris-II,' an attack named after the original 1988 worm. In a demonstration shared with Wired, the team showed how self-replicating prompts could spread through AI-powered email assistants, stealing data and sending spam along the way."
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The rise of #Moltbook suggests viral #AIPrompts may be the next big #SecurityThreat
We don’t need self-replicating AI models to have problems, just self-replicating prompts.
Benj Edwards – Feb 3, 2026
Excerpt: "While 'prompt worm' might be a relatively new term we’re using related to this moment, the theoretical groundwork for AI worms was laid almost two years ago. In March 2024, security researchers Ben Nassi of Cornell Tech, Stav Cohen of the Israel Institute of Technology, and Ron Bitton of Intuit published a paper demonstrating what they called 'Morris-II,' an attack named after the original 1988 worm. In a demonstration shared with Wired, the team showed how self-replicating prompts could spread through AI-powered email assistants, stealing data and sending spam along the way."
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The rise of #Moltbook suggests viral #AIPrompts may be the next big #SecurityThreat
We don’t need self-replicating AI models to have problems, just self-replicating prompts.
Benj Edwards – Feb 3, 2026
Excerpt: "While 'prompt worm' might be a relatively new term we’re using related to this moment, the theoretical groundwork for AI worms was laid almost two years ago. In March 2024, security researchers Ben Nassi of Cornell Tech, Stav Cohen of the Israel Institute of Technology, and Ron Bitton of Intuit published a paper demonstrating what they called 'Morris-II,' an attack named after the original 1988 worm. In a demonstration shared with Wired, the team showed how self-replicating prompts could spread through AI-powered email assistants, stealing data and sending spam along the way."
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The rise of #Moltbook suggests viral #AIPrompts may be the next big #SecurityThreat
We don’t need self-replicating AI models to have problems, just self-replicating prompts.
Benj Edwards – Feb 3, 2026
Excerpt: "While 'prompt worm' might be a relatively new term we’re using related to this moment, the theoretical groundwork for AI worms was laid almost two years ago. In March 2024, security researchers Ben Nassi of Cornell Tech, Stav Cohen of the Israel Institute of Technology, and Ron Bitton of Intuit published a paper demonstrating what they called 'Morris-II,' an attack named after the original 1988 worm. In a demonstration shared with Wired, the team showed how self-replicating prompts could spread through AI-powered email assistants, stealing data and sending spam along the way."
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The rise of #Moltbook suggests viral #AIPrompts may be the next big #SecurityThreat
We don’t need self-replicating AI models to have problems, just self-replicating prompts.
Benj Edwards – Feb 3, 2026
Excerpt: "While 'prompt worm' might be a relatively new term we’re using related to this moment, the theoretical groundwork for AI worms was laid almost two years ago. In March 2024, security researchers Ben Nassi of Cornell Tech, Stav Cohen of the Israel Institute of Technology, and Ron Bitton of Intuit published a paper demonstrating what they called 'Morris-II,' an attack named after the original 1988 worm. In a demonstration shared with Wired, the team showed how self-replicating prompts could spread through AI-powered email assistants, stealing data and sending spam along the way."
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Experimental Morris II worm can exploit popular AI services to steal data and spread malware
Cornell researchers created worm 'to serve as a whistleblower'
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"#MorrisII leverages generative #AI capabilities to infiltrate #email assistants and #chatbots. By deploying self-replicating prompts,"
https://indianf.com/ai-worm-morris-ii-data-security-threat/#:~:text=Morris%20II%20leverages%20generative%20AI%20capabilities%20to%20infiltrate%20email%20assistants%20and%20chatbots.%20By%20deploying%20self%2Dreplicating%20prompts%2C -
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