{"id":174849,"date":"2026-02-03T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/the-rise-of-moltbook-suggests-viral-ai-prompts-may-be-the-next-big-security-threat\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T12:00:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:00:01","slug":"the-rise-of-moltbook-suggests-viral-ai-prompts-may-be-the-next-big-security-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/the-rise-of-moltbook-suggests-viral-ai-prompts-may-be-the-next-big-security-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"The rise of Moltbook suggests viral AI prompts may be the next big security threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>On November 2, 1988, graduate student Robert Morris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/stories\/morris-worm-30-years-since-first-major-attack-on-internet-110218\">released<\/a> a self-replicating program into the early Internet. Within 24 hours, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morris_worm\">Morris worm<\/a> had infected roughly 10 percent of all connected computers, crashing systems at Harvard, Stanford, NASA, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The worm exploited security flaws in Unix systems that administrators knew existed but had not bothered to patch.<\/p>\n<p>Morris did not intend to cause damage. He wanted to measure the size of the Internet. But a coding error caused the worm to replicate far faster than expected, and by the time he tried to send instructions for removing it, the network was too clogged to deliver the message.<\/p>\n<p>History may soon repeat itself with a novel new platform: networks of AI agents carrying out instructions from prompts and sharing them with other AI agents, which could spread the instructions further.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/02\/the-rise-of-moltbook-suggests-viral-ai-prompts-may-be-the-next-big-security-threat\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/02\/the-rise-of-moltbook-suggests-viral-ai-prompts-may-be-the-next-big-security-threat\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 2, 1988, graduate student Robert Morris released a self-replicating program into the early Internet. 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