UNLEASHING ZERO-CLICK WORMS THAT TARGET GENAI-POWERED APPLICATIONS

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Researchers created a computer worm called Morris II that targets AI-powered applications by using adversarial self-replicating prompts. They demonstrated it against AI email assistants for spamming and data exfiltration across different models and input types. The worm replicates itself through prompts that make AI models engage in malicious activities and propagation.