{"id":236882,"date":"2026-06-25T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/you-cant-patch-your-way-out-of-it-cheap-ai-worm-can-spread-between-devices-without-human-guidance-but-how-did-scientists-create-it\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T05:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:05:17","slug":"you-cant-patch-your-way-out-of-it-cheap-ai-worm-can-spread-between-devices-without-human-guidance-but-how-did-scientists-create-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/you-cant-patch-your-way-out-of-it-cheap-ai-worm-can-spread-between-devices-without-human-guidance-but-how-did-scientists-create-it\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You can&#8217;t patch your way out of it&#8217;: Cheap AI worm can spread between devices without human guidance \u2014 but how did scientists create it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/you-cant-patch-your-way-out-of-it-cheap-ai-worm-can-spread-between-devices-without-human-guidance-but-how-did-scientists-create-it\">&#8216;You can&#8217;t patch your way out of it&#8217;: Cheap AI worm can spread between devices without human guidance \u2014 but how did scientists create it?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/you-cant-patch-your-way-out-of-it-cheap-ai-worm-can-spread-between-devices-without-human-guidance-but-how-did-scientists-create-it\">https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/you-cant-patch-your-way-out-of-it-cheap-ai-worm-can-spread-between-devices-without-human-guidance-but-how-did-scientists-create-it<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-25 05:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.livescience.com\">www.livescience.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Certainly! Here are 4-8 key points of the article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI-Powered Worm Concept<\/strong>: Researchers at the University of Toronto and CleverHans developed an AI-powered worm that autonomously spreads and exploits vulnerabilities in a network, illustrating a new potential for evolving cyberattack mechanisms.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Adaptive Reasoning<\/strong>: The worm uses a large language model to reason about possible vulnerabilities and decide on effective attack strategies, adapting its approach based on the environment.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Test Environment<\/strong>: The worm was tested on a simulated network consisting of various devices, successfully compromising approximately 62% of the hosts over one week.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Tiered Design<\/strong>: The AI worm leverages a tiered design where more powerful machines perform reasoning tasks to support lightweight agents on lower-power devices, amplifying its reach and efficiency.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Low-Cost Model<\/strong>: Rather than using advanced AI models from major companies, the researchers used easily downloadable and &#8211; The generated text has been blocked by our content filters.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;You can&#8217;t patch your way out of it&#8217;: Cheap AI worm can spread between devices&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/hRHXQtvfjozHos7UoEewNf-2000-80.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-236882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-large-language-model"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236884,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236882\/revisions\/236884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}