{"slug": "add-one-more-ai-worry-to-the-nightmare-scenario-self-replicating-prompt", "title": "Add one more AI worry to the nightmare scenario: self-replicating prompt injections", "summary": "Researchers have demonstrated a self-replicating prompt injection attack that spreads between AI agents like a worm, according to a report from The Register. The attack class adds a new concern to AI security scenarios because the injected prompts propagate automatically rather than requiring repeated manual delivery.", "body_md": "### [AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n- \n#### Add one more AI worry to the nightmare scenario: self-replicating prompt injectionsIt's a worm attack, AI-style\n- \n#### Zuckerberg touts enterprise AI push because Meta would never do anything to damage your reputationNew business unit to be led by former MongoDB CEO 'CJ' Desai\n- \n#### AMD's 192 GB Gorgon Halo prices might leave you petrifiedRegular pricing starts at $6,799 - all that memory doesn't come cheap\n- \n#### Schneider gives datacenter switchgear the software-defined treatmentEquinix pilot promises faster deployment and over-the-air upgrades without downtime, provided the code behaves itself\n- \n#### Investors are pricing in a 32.6% AI productivity boost for software engineersEconomists turn stock movements into an estimate of anticipated gains – while warning that markets can get carried away\n\n### [Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n- \nSecurity #### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacksPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n- \nSecurity #### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attackPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n- \nBlack Hat and DEF CON #### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructureVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n- \nSecurity #### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz AcronisWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n- \nMalware Month #### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sightOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n### [FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n- \n#### KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposalAkademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user\n- \n#### Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom lineAcquisition gives open source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'\n- \n#### Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push\n- \n#### Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander LinuxDebian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin\n- \n#### Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channelsThe Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next\n- \n#### Audacity audio-editing app no longer looks like it's from the early 2000sThe FOSS tool for audio editing has a fresh coat of paint, and new features to boot", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/add-one-more-ai-worry-to-the-nightmare-scenario-self-replicating-prompt", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/29/add-one-more-ai-worry-to-the-nightmare-scenario-self-replicating-prompt-injections/5299922", "published_at": "2026-09-29 21:34:39+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-29 22:17:03.437790+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["The Register"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/add-one-more-ai-worry-to-the-nightmare-scenario-self-replicating-prompt", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/add-one-more-ai-worry-to-the-nightmare-scenario-self-replicating-prompt.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/add-one-more-ai-worry-to-the-nightmare-scenario-self-replicating-prompt.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/add-one-more-ai-worry-to-the-nightmare-scenario-self-replicating-prompt.jsonld"}}