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This AI worm just rewrote its own rules

Smashing Security by Graham Cluley, Carole Theriault

Jun 10, 202646:27Technology

Researchers at the University of Toronto have built a worm that thinks for itself. Using free off-the-shelf AI models it works out how to break into each new computer it encounters, and hijacks the powerful ones to host...

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This AI worm just rewrote its own rules is an episode from Smashing Security by Graham Cluley, Carole Theriault. Researchers at the University of Toronto have built a worm that thinks for itself. Using free off-the-shelf AI models it works...

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Published Jun 10, 2026, 46:27 long, audio available.