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James Bentley

Great, now even malware is using LLMs to rewrite its code, says Google, as it documents new phase of 'AI abuse'

Portland, OR, USA - May 2, 2025: Assorted AI apps, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Meta AI, Microsoft Copilot, and Grok, are seen on the screen of an iPhone.

AI has been up to some naughty things in the past few years. From ignoring copyright to producing pretty awful approximations of games, to being exploited to lock down your machine. It seems like, as AI gets smarter, it only gets easier to use in malicious ways. One piece of malware has even been spotted using AI to rewrite itself to avoid detection. Spooky stuff.

Google has recently warned "adversaries are no longer leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) just for productivity gains, they are deploying novel AI-enabled malware in active operations".

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