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Adaptive, Agentic AI Worms Loom as Next Enterprise Threat

AI worms, or "viruses with wings and brains," adapt to new environments, seek out vulnerabilities, and will likely strike within a year, researchers say.

The hunt is on to find protections against the coming generation of adaptive AI worm malware in order to head off a global incident on the scale of other famous worm events, such as NotPetya, Stuxnet, MSBlast, or the SQL Slammer worm.

AI adaptive worms will be autonomous agents that rapidly self-propagate by searching for zero-day bugs, known but unpatched software flaws, and unprotected secrets — and they will be able to do this across multiple environments, morphing dynamically as they go. More here

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AI worms, or "viruses with wings and brains," adapt to new environments, seek out vulnerabilities, and will likely strike within a year, researchers say. More...

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