AI-Built Worm Could Hit Hundreds of Millions of Devices Within Hours, NYT Reports
toptickcrypto · x · 2026-09-09
The NYT reports a security firm built an AI-powered hacking tool in just over a week that spreads across WeChat like a virus via hijacked calls, potentially reaching hundreds of millions of devices within hours — called one of the most severe attacks ever seen by a former NSA chief data scientist. The poster speculates that if the NSA has frontier-model access, foreign cyber infrastructure may already be fully pwned.
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