There’s a new type of worm that can break into Apple computers without being detected — and the creators say virtually the only way to get rid of it is to throw your laptop in the garbage. Known as ...

In cybersecurity, few words trigger more dread than ‘wormable’—a vulnerability that could be weaponized into a self-spreading worm. Now researchers at the University of Toronto have demonstrated ...

What happens when you use AI to create a self-replicating computer worm? A group of researchers did just that, developing a prototype AI-driven worm that could adapt and infect a network of Windows- ...

Computer worms operating in tandem with free AI chatbots are a "new class of cyberthreat", security experts have warned. Worms are a type of malware that self-replicate and spread across computer ...

Asharq Al Awsat Anthropic's warning that AI-powered "worms" could soon spread across smart gadgets is the latest in a series of studies showing how artificial intelligence could supercharge ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. Listen 4:16 A powerful new computer ...

Even before the World Wide Web (WWW) came into existence, there was Morris worm — one of the first computer worms that the ...

At around 8:30 p.m. on November 2, 1988, a maliciously clever program was unleashed on the Internet from a computer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This cyber worm was soon ...