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AI Worms 2026 The Next Big Cyber Threat Explained | Rishi Koushal
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AI worms represent a class of self-adapting autonomous malware that could evade traditional defenses and pivot through cloud environments, so defenders need situational awareness of the emerging threat and the underlying agentic research.
An explainer blog post describes AI worms — autonomous agentic malware that can scan for vulnerabilities, write and morph its own exploit code, and spread across systems. It cites a proof-of-concept agentic AI worm created by researchers at the University of Toronto, the Vector Institute, ServiceNow, and the University of Cambridge, and notes BeyondTrust's gain-of-function testing and a warning that an AI-powered worm attack could target developers within six months to a year.