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Cybersecurityhigh impactResearchers Demonstrate AI-Powered WeChat Worm Spreading via Phone Calls
· Palo Alto, United States · Americas · no longer in the live window
Researchers at a Palo Alto security company used AI to build a worm that spreads through WeChat calls, taking over accounts while the phone is ringing and then calling the victim's contacts.
- Topic
- Cybersecurity
- Location
- Palo Alto, United States (37.442°, -122.143°)
- Region
- Americas
- Impact
- high
- Reported by
- The Next Web
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