Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos
29-07-2026 18:43 via theregister.com

Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos

Watch out for untrusted documents. According to research, an attacker can hide malicious instructions in a Word document that, when included in Copilot for Word’s context, may alter document output and copy the instructions into newly created files that use the affected document as source material, without the victim noticing. Håkon Måløy, a Norwegian data scientist with a PhD in applied AI and ML, publicly disclosed the issue in a blog post Tuesday. Måløy d
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