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   Hackers have finally made sophisticated AI generated malware  this AI virus   
   was functional in a matter of days and mimicked the work of a three dev teams   
   working 50 hours a week   
      
   Date:   
   Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:35:00 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   VoidLink malware was created by a single developer using an AI agent to do    
   the work of three development teams.   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   A new malware strain which shows evidence of being largely developed using AI   
   has been discovered, potentially ushering in a worrying new era of    
   cybercrime.    
      
    Check Point Research spotted and investigated VoidLink, and found it to be   
   highly sophisticated, marking a stark change from other malware developed   
   using AI, which are often derived from existing malware and are usually   
   inferior.   
      
   AI is helping malware rapidly evolve    
      
   VoidLinks development mimicked the work of a full development team. The lead   
   developer started with a codebase and guidelines which were fed into an AI   
   agent. The AI agent was then tasked with creating separate project   
   specifications for development, coding, and architecture using a specific   
   coding rulebook of guidelines and constraints.    
      
   The developer specified that no code was to be implemented by the agent at   
   first. Only once the initial plans were completed did the developer allow the   
   AI agent to deliver an execution plan for the development of VoidLink.    
      
   While evidence gathered from the source code suggests that VoidLink was   
   intended to be a 30-week project, a test artefact suggests that VoidLink was   
   already functional within one week of development, and had amassed 88,000   
   lines of code.   
      
   VoidLink differs significantly from previous examples of AI-assisted malware   
   development which have typically been performed by threat actors with less   
   experience. VoidLink clearly demonstrates that experienced developers can   
   create sophisticated and highly capable malware in very short timeframes.    
      
   While VoidLink isnt a fully AI generated malware, it is certainly evidence   
   that we see complex malware being developed autonomously by AI agents sooner   
   rather than later.   
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/hackers-have-finally-made-sophisticated   
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