🦠 Self-replicating AI malware is already here
Researchers found open-weight LLMs wired into a harness can sustain and replicate themselves like a virus. No command server needed, the model itself carries the logic. This breaks the old assumption that killing infrastructure kills the threat. Security teams built defenses for code that needs a home, not code that thinks for itself.
Patch cycles were built for a world without autonomous minds, that world just ended.
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