Hacking tool built with A.I. can breach phones without click

New York Times: Calif said the attack, which it named WeWorm, was the first known computer worm — a type of malicious software that can leap from machine to machine on its own absent human help — that could spread across Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems without needing a victim to click or tap on anything. So-called zero-click attacks are different, and far more lethal, than standard phishing emails and texts. They are considered especially pernicious because they are so hard to defend against, given that they do not require a victim to step into a digital booby trap…