The Morris worm deleted nothing and crashed ten percent of the internet because it couldn’t tell where it had already been.

Anthropic is warning that AI models are getting so advanced that they may be able to worm their way into millions of smart ...

Anthropic's warning that AI-powered "worms" could soon spread across smart gadgets is the latest in a series of studies ...

Those potential consequences are Walsh’s assessment of the emerging risk. The Anthropic research focused primarily on whether ...

Small artificial intelligence models may be only months away from being able to behave like a computer worm, copying ...

Small AI models could clone themselves and infect internet-connected devices such as smart TVs and appliances, the researchers warned.

Hello, Reader. In 1988, Ivy League graduate Robert Tappan Morris released a small, self-replicating code – a “worm” – onto the early internet. He claimed he only wanted to find out how big “the ’net” ...

Computer worms self-replicate without user action, causing damage by spreading quickly. Antivirus software is crucial to protect against and remove them. You probably don’t have to know much about ...

Malware, short for malicious software, is a broad term covering any program or code intentionally designed to harm, exploit, or compromise a computer system, network, or user. The category includes ...

A computer virus is a type of malware that attaches to another program (like a document), which can replicate and spread after a person first runs it on their system. For instance, you could receive ...

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