University of Toronto researchers built a worm powered by open-weight AI that adapts to its targets. Experts say it changes ...

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Researchers at the University of Toronto say their project highlights the risk of open-weight AI models being weaponized. The worm was able to spread over a network with no human guidance.

Researchers at the University of Toronto showed how hackers could use artificial intelligence to create a program that could target any known flaw in the world’s computers. By Cade Metz Cade Metz has ...

Nicolas Papernot, a professor at the University of Toronto, at the university on June 1, 2026. Papernot led a team that demonstrated a way of building a dangerous computer 'worm' using artificial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. University of Toronto researchers demonstrated an AI-driven worm that exploited nearly three-quarters of a simulated corporate ...