The Register on MSN

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 ...
Morning Overview on MSN

IBM’s “Bob” AI can be tricked into running malware

IBM’s experimental coding assistant “Bob” was pitched as a way to automate routine development tasks, but security ...
Futurism

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 ...
PC Gamer

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

Hardware Dell's CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I've had in maybe 5 years RPG Larian swears off gen AI concept art tools and says 'There is not going to be any GenAI art in ...
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 ...
SiliconANGLE

Sysdig detects AI-assisted malware exploiting Open WebUI misconfigurations

A new report out today from cloud-native application security firm Sysdig Inc. details one of the first instances of a large language model being weaponized in an active malware campaign. Discovered ...

AI-coded malware arrives on the Mac through fake Grok AI app

Mosyle has identified a macOS malware campaign that uses generative AI-assisted code and spreads through a fake AI app ...
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 ...
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 ...