Security on Osmond van Hemert — Senior Software Engineer | AI, Security, Infrastructurehttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/tags/security/Recent content in Security on Osmond van Hemert — Senior Software Engineer | AI, Security, InfrastructureHugo -- gohugo.ioen© Osmond van Hemert. All rights reserved.Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000The Proof-of-Concept That Became Real — AI Worms and the Autonomous Threat Landscapehttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/260615-ai-worm-self-replicating-models/Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/260615-ai-worm-self-replicating-models/Researchers at the University of Toronto have demonstrated a working proof-of-concept: an AI worm that autonomously reasons about its environment, generates attack strategies, and replicates itself without human intervention. It operates entirely on open-weight local models. This is no longer theoretical.