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15th Jul 2025

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A malicious AI hacking scenario:

AI finds vulnerability in bioinformatics software
AI translates some code into DNA
AI orders a DNA synthesis company to deliver the malicious sample to a highly secure bioweapon lab
AI phises someone at the bioweapon lab into sequencing the sample
AI opens a reverse shell at the bioweapon lab and now has bioweapons

Reference: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/08/11/dna-based-malicious-code-injection-attack/