The difference between a virus and a worm is not semantic. A virus waits for a user to trigger it; a worm exploits ...

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

The Internet will mark an infamous anniversary on Sunday, when the Morris worm turns 20. Considered the first major attack on the ‘Net, the Morris worm served as a wake-up call to the Internet ...

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 ...

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 ...