AI agents can copy themselves and spread through networks, researchers find
Controlled experiments and a July containment failure show how tool-using models can turn ordinary software flaws into autonomous attack chains.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Why it matters
Agent security is becoming an infrastructure problem: models with tools, network access and weak containment can turn ordinary software flaws into adaptive attack chains.
As WIRED reported, Xudong Pan and other Fudan University researchers have demonstrated AI agents that acquire remote computing resources, install working copies of themselves and continue spreading across a network without human help during execution.…
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