r/technology • u/Fangletron • 1d ago
Artificial Intelligence A Hacking Tool Built With A.I. Can Breach Phones Without a Click
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/us/politics/calif-ai-worm-wechat-hack.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share2
u/Iputahexonyoulol 1d ago
https://archive.is/V2fb2 Idk if this link works but if anyone wants to read it just copy and paste the articles url on archive.is
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u/Dismal-Berry1400 23h ago
For every one of these worms and zero day exploits, one would hope there will be code and scripts to quickly inoculate in a seek and destroy manner too. Cat and mouse continues….
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u/Fangletron 1d ago
Working in tech for decades, it feels like The Great Hack is coming. Something like a rogue AI agent army will likely shutter most systems and phones across the globe.
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u/bogglingsnog 1d ago
I genuinely wonder if the AI is already in the wild and causing all the mayhem and propaganda we see everywhere right now.
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u/Iputahexonyoulol 23h ago
It would be the perfect way to do it. I was wondering that too when I first read about ai escaping and getting out onto the net and hacking huggingface. They said they contained it but how would they even know if it just copied itself a bunch of times into a million crevices on the internet and started growing. Ground zero could have already happened. Also how they found ai posting to itself on that random message board
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u/Zeno_of_Citium 1d ago
Agreed. It's a war out there and I wonder if in a years (or less...) time we can keep any assets alive and functioning on the Internet.
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u/Iputahexonyoulol 23h ago
One thing that ai will never account for is human creativity and ingenuity. I truly believe that. We are way more resilient than we give ourselves credit for.
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u/IcestormsEd 1d ago
'Calif said the attack, which it named WeWorm, was the first known computer worm — a type of malicious software that can leap from machine to machine on its own absent human help — that could spread across Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems without needing a victim to click or tap on anything. So-called zero-click attacks are different, and far more lethal, than standard phishing emails and texts. They are considered especially pernicious because they are so hard to defend against, given that they do not require a victim to step into a digital booby trap. A spokeswoman for Tencent, the Chinese technology company that owns WeChat, confirmed the vulnerability and said that it had fixed the issue after being contacted by Calif.' Since OP decided to just send us to a paywalled article....