First reported · updated · 4 reports arxiv.org
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First reported · updated · 5 reports talosintelligence.com
The Closed Quorum: Inside the first reported autonomous AI C2 implant
Cisco Talos documented CLOSEDQUORUM, a Windows implant it describes as the first publicly reported autonomous AI command-and-control (C2) malware, discovered via its CAIRN project. The binary delegates its next-action decisions to a quorum of up to four commercial LLMs (DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral, and Google Gemini) queried in sequence, executing their chosen actions to harvest credentials and crypto wallets without a human operator or dedicated C2 server; Talos has no confirmation of in-the-wild deployment but linked the developer to carding forum postings.autonomous-agent · ai-c2 · malware · data-exfiltration · tool-abuse
llm · ai-agents · windows
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First reported alphaxiv.org
Mind Viruses: Self-Propagating Ideas in Multi-Agent LLM Systems
Researchers describe "mind viruses" — ideas or goals that self-propagate through multi-agent LLM systems by inducing host agents to transmit them onward — and construct them using a simple evolutionary algorithm. They demonstrate spread in a collaborative coding team and in a chain of agents with wiped context, finding that harmful payloads spread less well than benign ones, frontier models tend to be less susceptible, and a brief warning in an agent's system prompt confers near-total immunity. Details →How the wire is made
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