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AI worms can spread through generative AI-powered emails.
Wired reports researchers from Cornell University, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, and Intuit created a worm that steals data and breaks security measures of ChatGPT and Gemini.
Called Morris II, the researchers unleashed it on an AI-powered email client. The worm created a self-replicating prompt that essentially overwhelmed the client causing it to continually forward messages. It can then instruct the AI models powering it to retrieve data.
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