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quoted text: "The researchers’ work showed that open-weight AI models could be used to engineer a far more sophisticated threat – one that can scope out each target, tailor its attacks and take over a machine before cloning itself onto the next one. The worm also gathers information as it moves deeper into a network, with every breach revealing passwords and weak points that can unlock another machine. And because it adapts, no single defence can stop it. The worm extends its reach at its victims’ expense. Once it embeds itself in a machine, the AI worm siphons processing power to fuel its reasoning and launch the next attack. This stolen compute propels its spread, essentially eliminating the cost of each new infection. “Hackers have typically had to prioritize the most high-value targets because time and computing resources were limited,” Papernot says. “But now, once a worm is launched, the cost would drop to nearly zero.”"