News AI worm infects users via AI-enabled email clients — Morris II generative AI worm steals confidential data as it spreads

[Admin]

Three researchers created a worm that exploits the currently available generative AI engines used in email clients that can steal confidential information and keep affecting newer users by forwarding emails to unsuspecting users.

AI worm infects users via AI-enabled email clients — Morris II generative AI worm steals confidential data as it spreads : Read more

 

[Notton]

This article is so full of buzzwords and technobabel that the only thing I understood from it, someone made malware.

What does it infect? What is vulnerable? Is the regular user ever going to see something like this?

 

[frogr]

This article is so full of buzzwords and technobabel that the only thing I understood from it, someone made malware.

What does it infect? What is vulnerable? Is the regular user ever going to see something like this?

You are at risk only if an application on your phone or computer uses Large Language Model AI. Microsoft and Google are planning on introducing them into your operating system and browsers. Intel, AMD and Apple among others are including NPUs (neural processing units) into their new chips to run these models on your hardware. Nothing to worry about, right?

 

[NinoPino]

It seems to me that the AI thing is becoming too complex (and not too intelligent) to be controlled, also in this early stage.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Qualcomm has already said they're intergrating "AI processing" into the next Snapdragon chip next year too "to improve signal reception". Let us hope Apple, Google, Red Hat (and all other Linux distros), and Microsoft are actually taking AI malware seriously so AI malware is a non-issue.

Certain manufacturers though, like those starting with an H and O, will no doubt use AI malware to their advantage.