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

• VoidLink was created by a single developer using an AI agent
• The AI agent used skeleton code and guidelines to create complex malware
• Code development was split between three AI 'teams'

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

VoidLink’s 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 ...