Tag: worm
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What are self-replicating ‘AI worms’, and why is Anthropic worried about them?
The tech company says successful AI worms need more capability on less powerful devices, but current trends make that feasible by the end of the yearWarnings about what artificial intelligence might do in the future together with alarming reports of what it has gotten up to already are being issued so quickly that even security…
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Anthropic Warns Small AI Models Could Power Self-Spreading AI Worms
Anthropic finds small AI models can set up inference servers across different hardware, raising concerns about future AI… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/anthropic-warns-small-ai-models-power-ai-worms/
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Anthropic Finds Ingredients for Future AI Worms
Anthropic’s latest study combined IoT and network tests to explore AI self-replication, which researchers said would be challenging to shut down. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/perimeter/anthropic-ingredients-future-ai-worms
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Anthropic Warns Small AI Models Could Soon Form Self-Propagating IoT Botnets
Small artificial intelligence (AI) models may be months away from developing capabilities to self-replicate on IoT devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes, according to a warning from Anthropic.The frontier AI lab said small AI models could form autonomous, self-propagating worm botnets that are “challenging to shut down,” since “there’s no centralized point…
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ChainDrop and PolinRider Use Blockchain C2 to Steal Cloud and CI/CD Credentials
Tags: access, blockchain, cloud, control, credentials, cyber, endpoint, infrastructure, korea, network, north-korea, open-source, service, threat, wormThreat actors are increasingly using blockchain networks as resilient command-and-control infrastructure to steal cloud credentials from developer endpoints and CI/CD environments. Recent campaigns involving the ChainDrop npm worm and the North Korea-linked PolinRider operation show how poisoned open-source packages can harvest short-lived cloud tokens, service-account credentials, deployment secrets, and source-code access tokens while resolving attacker…
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Tensorlake npm Package Compromised to Deliver Shai-Hulud Credential-Stealing Worm
The npm package known as “tensorlake,” a TypeScript software development kit (SDK) for Tensorlake applications, sandboxes, and cloud services, was compromised as part of a ChainDrop / Shai-Hulud supply chain attack.The malicious version 0.5.144 “contains obfuscated malware that harvests credentials, exfiltrates secrets, establishes persistence, and executes remotely supplied code,” Socket said First seen on thehackernews.com…
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Hackers Turn an Open-Source AI Agent Into a Tool for Controlling Compromised Docker Servers
Tags: access, ai, authentication, botnet, control, cyber, data-breach, docker, framework, hacker, open-source, tool, wormA Docker-focused botnet that repurposes the legitimate, open-source Hermes Agent framework as an interactive post-compromise control layer. The campaign, tracked as CARBONATO, targets Docker daemons exposed without authentication on TCP port 2375, then combines worm-like propagation, stealthy persistence, reverse SSH access and Telegram-driven AI-agent operations. The investigation began in August 2026 after researchers identified a…
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Attacker Hijacks AI Coding Assistant Session, Spreads Shai-Hulud Across About 100 Repositories
Mandiant says an attacker hijacked an active AI coding-assistant session at an unnamed software-as-a-service provider and later spread Shai-Hulud across about 100 internal code repositories.Before the repository spread, the assistant recommended software that the attacker had poisoned, and the recommendation was accepted. The worm stole repository secrets and source code for the First seen on…
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âš¡ Weekly Recap: Rogue AI Agents, WeChat Worm, PaperCut Attacks, AI Espionage, and Rootkits
AI keeps showing up in the wrong places. Attackers are using it to speed up exploits, test defenses, and automate more of the job. Some models are also crossing lines on their own. That is not a great combination.The rest of the week is more familiar: old bugs still working, fresh exploit chains, exposed systems,…
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Using AI, Calif Creates Demo WeChat Exploit that Spreads Through Phone Calls
Researchers with Calif used AI to detect a security flaw in the WeChat app and then create a demo worm exploit that can be spread quickly through mobile phones. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/using-ai-calif-creates-demo-wechat-exploit-that-spreads-through-phone-calls/
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>>Zero-click<< WeChat worm could hijack accounts and spread via a single call
Researchers with security company Calif have discovered, weaponized, and privately reported to Tencent a critical vulnerability that allowed them to create … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/08/wechat-weworm-vulnerability-exploit-account-hijacking/
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WeChat Zero-Click Worm Took Over Accounts on iPhone and Android via Incoming Calls
Researchers at the security firm Calif have built a worm that takes over a WeChat account via an incoming call and demonstrated it spreading among three test phones.The person being called does not have to answer or touch their phone for it to work, but the caller must already be one of their WeChat contacts.…
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THost9 Android RAT Pairs Packed Loader With ADB Worm
THost9 hides its payload and uses ADB to spread across exposed Android devices and containers First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/thost9-android-rat-packed-loader/
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Known npm Worm Returns After 111 Days and Security Scanning Still Let It Through
A known Shai-Hulud npm worm payload has resurfaced after 111 days of inactivity, raising fresh questions about the effectiveness of registry-level malware screening. The May campaign demonstrated how quickly a single compromised maintainer account can turn into a software supply-chain incident. Attackers pushed malicious versions across npm packages, including widely used visualization and frontend dependencies.…
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Rogue ScreenConnect Clients Spread Four-Stage VBScript Chain to Newly Connected Hosts
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of worm-like activity that abuses ConnectWise ScreenConnect to distribute a malicious Visual Basic Script (VBScript) payload to newly connected systems.According to Huntress, three unrelated incidents have been found to use diverse initial access methods, namely a Quick Assist tech-support scam, a phishing-delivered MSI installer, and a fake First seen on…
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Hijacked ScreenConnect Installs Are Spreading Malware Like a Worm, Huntress Warns
Cybersecurity firm Huntress has uncovered a wave of malicious installations of ScreenConnect, a widely used remote-support tool, that spread between machines without any further action from a victim or an attacker, a self-propagating attack chain researchers likened to a computer worm. In a blog post published this week, Huntress said its Security Operations Center (SOC)…
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Rogue ScreenConnect Clients Spread Worm-Like Malware Across Connected Windows Systems
A malicious ScreenConnect campaign in which rogue remote-access clients do more than provide attackers with hands-on control: modified clients can automatically push a multi-stage VBScript malware chain to newly connected Windows endpoints. Once deployed, the clients repeatedly spawned wscript.exe to execute four scripts 1.vbs, 2.vbs, 3.vbs, and 4.vbs from ScreenConnect-related temporary locations. The behavior is…
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Shai-Hulud’s Reach Just Grew to 469 Credential Locations. Here’s What That Means
In early August, GitGuardian researchers found that a recent Shai-Hulud infostealer worm variant had evolved to scan for credentials across 469 locations across developer environments, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tooling, cloud configurations, and even AI tool configs.Earlier variants of the infostealer worm only checked 189 paths. The jump says a lot. Attackers have First seen…
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OWASP Top 10 CI/CD Security Risks Explained: Why Credential Hygiene Decides the Outcome
TL;DRCredentials are the multiplier: OWASP’s Top 10 CI/CD Security Risks cover ten distinct trust failures, but exposed or overprivileged credentials (CICD-SEC-6) make nearly every other risk more dangerous once attackers gain a foothold.Attacks are accelerating: Since 2025, worms like Shai-Hulud,… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/owasp-top-10-ci-cd-security-risks-explained-why-credential-hygiene-decides-the-outcome/
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Shai-Hulud Trinitite Worm Infects Popular TanStack Query npm Package to Steal Developer Secrets
A new Shai-Hulud supply-chain attack dubbed Trinitite has compromised the npm package @7nohe/openapi-react-query-codegen, a TanStack Query code-generation library with more than 150,000 weekly downloads. The malicious releases deploy an evolved Mini Shai-Hulud worm designed to steal developer, cloud, CI/CD, package-registry, Kubernetes, Vault, and source-control credentials before using recovered access to spread through additional packages. While…
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Shai-Hulud hackers: two men charged over TeamPCP’s global supply chain crime spree that hit OpenAI, and thousands more
More than 1,000 organisations, 500,000 stolen credentials, and one self-propagating worm named after a Dune sandworm – two men now face charges over TeamPCP’s global hacking spree. First seen on bitdefender.com Jump to article: www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/shai-hulud-hackers-charged-teampcps
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Centralize Like You Mean It, Federate Like You Have To
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, dns, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, network, PCI, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, windows, worm(by Anton Chuvakin & Usman Chaudhary) Prologue: Three Years After “The End Is Nigh” Back in 2023, one of us wrote “Log Centralization: The End Is Nigh?””Š”, “Šan admittedly incomplete-thought blog with a scary premise: after 20+ years of yelling “centralize your logs!” (the earliest surviving deck is from 2003), we may be running out of…
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Centralize Like You Mean It, Federate Like You Have To
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, dns, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, network, PCI, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, windows, worm(by Anton Chuvakin & Usman Chaudhary) Prologue: Three Years After “The End Is Nigh” Back in 2023, one of us wrote “Log Centralization: The End Is Nigh?””Š”, “Šan admittedly incomplete-thought blog with a scary premise: after 20+ years of yelling “centralize your logs!” (the earliest surviving deck is from 2003), we may be running out of…
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Centralize Like You Mean It, Federate Like You Have To
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, dns, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, network, PCI, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, windows, worm(by Anton Chuvakin & Usman Chaudhary) Prologue: Three Years After “The End Is Nigh” Back in 2023, one of us wrote “Log Centralization: The End Is Nigh?””Š”, “Šan admittedly incomplete-thought blog with a scary premise: after 20+ years of yelling “centralize your logs!” (the earliest surviving deck is from 2003), we may be running out of…
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Centralize Like You Mean It, Federate Like You Have To
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, dns, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, network, PCI, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, windows, worm(by Anton Chuvakin & Usman Chaudhary) Prologue: Three Years After “The End Is Nigh” Back in 2023, one of us wrote “Log Centralization: The End Is Nigh?””Š”, “Šan admittedly incomplete-thought blog with a scary premise: after 20+ years of yelling “centralize your logs!” (the earliest surviving deck is from 2003), we may be running out of…
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Centralize Like You Mean It, Federate Like You Have To
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, dns, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, network, PCI, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, windows, worm(by Anton Chuvakin & Usman Chaudhary) Prologue: Three Years After “The End Is Nigh” Back in 2023, one of us wrote “Log Centralization: The End Is Nigh?””Š”, “Šan admittedly incomplete-thought blog with a scary premise: after 20+ years of yelling “centralize your logs!” (the earliest surviving deck is from 2003), we may be running out of…
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Centralize Like You Mean It, Federate Like You Have To
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, dns, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, network, PCI, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, windows, worm(by Anton Chuvakin & Usman Chaudhary) Prologue: Three Years After “The End Is Nigh” Back in 2023, one of us wrote “Log Centralization: The End Is Nigh?””Š”, “Šan admittedly incomplete-thought blog with a scary premise: after 20+ years of yelling “centralize your logs!” (the earliest surviving deck is from 2003), we may be running out of…
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Centralize Like You Mean It, Federate Like You Have To
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, dns, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, network, PCI, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, windows, worm(by Anton Chuvakin & Usman Chaudhary) Prologue: Three Years After “The End Is Nigh” Back in 2023, one of us wrote “Log Centralization: The End Is Nigh?””Š”, “Šan admittedly incomplete-thought blog with a scary premise: after 20+ years of yelling “centralize your logs!” (the earliest surviving deck is from 2003), we may be running out of…
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Centralize Like You Mean It, Federate Like You Have To
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, dns, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, network, PCI, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, windows, worm(by Anton Chuvakin & Usman Chaudhary) Prologue: Three Years After “The End Is Nigh” Back in 2023, one of us wrote “Log Centralization: The End Is Nigh?””Š”, “Šan admittedly incomplete-thought blog with a scary premise: after 20+ years of yelling “centralize your logs!” (the earliest surviving deck is from 2003), we may be running out of…
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Centralize Like You Mean It, Federate Like You Have To
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, dns, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, network, PCI, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, windows, worm(by Anton Chuvakin & Usman Chaudhary) Prologue: Three Years After “The End Is Nigh” Back in 2023, one of us wrote “Log Centralization: The End Is Nigh?””Š”, “Šan admittedly incomplete-thought blog with a scary premise: after 20+ years of yelling “centralize your logs!” (the earliest surviving deck is from 2003), we may be running out of…