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Yes, criminals are using AI to vibe-code malware

They also hallucinate when writing ransomware code Interview With everyone from would-be developers to six-year-old kids ...
PC Gamer

Great, now even malware is using LLMs to rewrite its code, says Google, as it documents new phase of 'AI abuse'

I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Google has recently warned "adversaries are no longer ...
HotHardware

Google Flags AI Malware Surge As Hackers Use LLMs To Mutate Code On-The-Fly

The industry-wide effort to AI all the things isn't without its seedy side. Namely, we're quickly entering an era of more sophisticated malware strains evading common antivirus protections, with ...
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Malware Is Now Using AI to Rewrite Its Own Code to Avoid Detection

Researchers at Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) have discovered that hackers are creating malware that can harness the power of large language models (LLMs) to rewrite itself on the fly. An ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

AI-Enabled Malware Now Actively Deployed, Says Google

Google has discovered a new breed of AI-powered malware that uses large language models (LLMs) during execution to dynamically generate malicious scripts and evade detection. A Google Threat ...
ZDNet

Google spots malware in the wild that morphs mid-attack, thanks to AI

Google detected novel adaptive malware in the wild. This new malware uses LLMs to dynamically generate code. Google also listed other new key trends in cyberattacks. The use of artificial intelligence ...
Bleeping Computer

Google warns of new AI-powered malware families deployed in the wild

Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has identified a major shift this year, with adversaries leveraging artificial intelligence to deploy new malware families that integrate large language ...
Ars Technica

5 AI-developed malware families analyzed by Google fail to work and are easily detected

Google on Wednesday revealed five recent malware samples that were built using generative AI. The end results of each one were far below par with professional malware development, a finding that shows ...
Dark ReadingOpinion

Cybersecurity Predictions 2026: An AI Arms Race and Malware Autonomy

AI-driven attacks, autonomous malware, AI-powered defenses, and the impact of consolidation on the threat landscape.
CSOonline

AI-forged panda images hide persistent cryptomining malware ‘Koske’

A new malware strain named ‘Koske’ is delivering crypto-mining payloads through dropper files posing as benign panda pictures. According to Aqua Nautilus, the cybersecurity team at Aqua Security, the ...
Dark Reading

AI-Generated Linux Miner 'Koske' Beats Human Malware

A newly discovered cryptominer suggests that attackers are not only using artificial intelligence (AI) to develop malware from scratch but also to create code that exceeds the capabilities of ...