TZUTC: -0500
MSGID: 2029.consprcy@1:2320/105 2dd77e67
PID: Synchronet 3.21a-Linux master/123f2d28a Jul 12 2025 GCC 12.2.0
TID: SBBSecho 3.28-Linux master/123f2d28a Jul 12 2025 GCC 12.2.0
BBSID: CAPCITY2
CHRS: ASCII 1
FORMAT: flowed
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.

======================================================================
Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/hackers-have-finally-made-sophisticated
-ai-generated-malware-this-ai-virus-was-functional-in-a-matter-of-days-and-mim
icked-the-work-of-a-three-dev-teams-working-50-hours-a-week

$$
--- SBBSecho 3.28-Linux
 * Origin: Capitol City Online (1:2320/105)
SEEN-BY: 105/81 106/201 128/187 129/14 305 153/7715 154/110 218/700
SEEN-BY: 226/30 227/114 229/110 134 206 300 307 317 400 426 428 470
SEEN-BY: 229/664 700 705 266/512 291/111 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45
SEEN-BY: 460/58 633/280 712/848 902/26 2320/0 105 304 3634/12 5075/35
PATH: 2320/105 229/426