Security researcher: agent worms' network footprint is the big unknown for air-gapped networks
matthew_d_green · x · 2026-10-13
Cryptographer Matthew Green discusses the key unknown for future agent worms: how much network access they'll need and whether it's detectable. Minimizing this footprint would make detection far harder, especially for air-gapped networks. He muses about using a frontier model to optimize a tiny CPU-only model fine-tuned for network exploration, with the larger model acting as a consultant — a recipe for small, low-traffic, hard-to-spot self-propagating AI malware.
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