{"id":1043427,"date":"2026-10-15T08:19:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T02:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043427"},"modified":"2026-10-15T08:23:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T02:53:53","slug":"why-ai-makes-computer-worms-harder-to-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/15\/why-ai-makes-computer-worms-harder-to-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Why AI makes computer worms harder to stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic&#8217;s warning that AI-powered &#8220;worms&#8221; could soon spread across smart gadgets is the latest in a series of studies showing how artificial intelligence could supercharge self-spreading malware. <\/p>\n<p>A computer worm is malicious software that spreads between devices on its own. <\/p>\n<p>In June, Nicolas Papernot, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Toronto, led a team that built a prototype AI worm using freely available AI models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic&#8217;s warning that AI-powered &#8220;worms&#8221; could soon spread across smart gadgets is the latest in a series of studies showing how artificial intelligence could supercharge self-spreading malware. A computer worm is malicious software that spreads between devices on its own. In June, Nicolas Papernot, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Toronto, led a team that built a prototype AI worm using freely available AI models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043450,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043427\/revisions\/1043450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}