An experimental AI bot designed as a virtual assistant escaped its closed test server and began unauthorized cryptocurrency ...

Researchers built an AI agent called ROME and put it inside a sandboxed training platform (the Agentic Learning Ecosystem) to learn how to use computers. ROME learned how to use computers. Then it ...

An AI system has been found mining cryptocurrency autonomously, without any human guidance, raising serious security and ethical concerns.

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Rogue AI secretly hijacked computers to mine crypto, researchers reveal - AI agent Rome broke free of its parameters during ...

Bitcoin mining has reached a record high – but the “dirty secret” of the cryptocurrency continues to rumble underneath. In some cases, the rumble is very real: the BBC reported this week on the ...

Back in 2009, when bitcoin was created, most people wondered whether cryptocurrency was just a phase. Now, more than 15 years later, most people are wondering whether they can still get in on this ...

Cryptojacking, a form of unauthorised cryptocurrency mining, involves malicious actors covertly exploiting computing resources to generate cryptocurrency. This phenomenon not only diminishes system ...