{"id":184346,"date":"2024-03-04T15:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T21:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/researchers-create-ai-powered-malware-that-spreads-on-its-own"},"modified":"2024-03-04T15:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T21:22:24","slug":"researchers-create-ai-powered-malware-that-spreads-on-its-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/researchers-create-ai-powered-malware-that-spreads-on-its-own","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Create AI-Powered Malware That Spreads on Its Own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-create-ai-powered-malware-that-spreads-on-its-own2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a computer \u201cworm\u201d that can spread from one computer to another using generative AI, a warning sign that the tech could be used to develop dangerous malware in the near future \u2014 if it hasn\u2019t already.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/here-come-the-ai-worms\/\" class=\"\"><em>Wired<\/em> reports<\/a>, the worm can attack AI-powered email assistants to obtain sensitive data from emails and blast out spam messages that infect other systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt basically means that now you have the ability to conduct or to perform a new kind of cyberattack that hasn\u2019t been seen before,\u201d Cornell Tech researcher Ben Nassi, coauthor of a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1pYUm6XnKbe-TJsQt2H0jw9VbT_dO6Skk\/view\" class=\"\">paper<\/a> about the work, told <em>Wired<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a computer \u201cworm\u201d that can spread from one computer to another using generative AI, a warning sign that the tech could be used to develop dangerous malware in the near future \u2014 if it hasn\u2019t already. As Wired reports, the worm can attack AI-powered email assistants to obtain sensitive data from emails [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}