What is the malware that takes orders from an AI instead of a person?

CLOSEDQUORUM is a researched malware design that asks multiple AI models to vote on its next action.

Cisco Talos’s CAIRN research tool surfaced CLOSEDQUORUM, Windows malware designed to ask several AI models what to do next and execute the majority choice. Researchers found no human operator directing the analyzed command loop, though they also did not confirm a complete live campaign. That makes it an emerging architecture, not proof that autonomous malware is suddenly everywhere.

Defenders should focus on familiar controls that still matter: patching, least privilege, endpoint monitoring, and restricting unknown software from making outbound connections.