Copilot worm can spread through Microsoft Word docs
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Although there are a few ways to mitigate the risk, the only way to block it is to get AI to differentiate instructions from data, which is impossible today.
  • apftwb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Article title

    Copilot worm can spread through Microsoft Word docs

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    Microsoft confirms an AI worm is propagating through Copilot and other MS apps

    The article talks about a document-born self propagating virus demonstration a group of security researchers made because LLMs/Copilot doesn’t distinguish between data and instructions. The article does not imply this was seen in the wild.