Trending & Emerging Threats – Curated Threat Profile Update
VoidLink is an advanced, modular, cloud-native Linux malware framework designed for stealthy, long-term access, surveillance, and data collection in cloud and container environments. Check Point researchers indicate that VoidLink's development represents a significant milestone for "AI-generated" malware, with the malicious tool believed to be authored almost entirely via artificial intelligence (including design, planning, iteration, and testing phases), likely under the direction of a single individual in under a week's time.
1/29/26: VoidLink – Spotlight Procedures
- PS1034909: Establish Persistence via Cron Jobs
- Plugin cron_persist_v3.o installs or alters cron jobs for persistence.
Threat-Led Defense commentary: While few specific details of the behavior’s implementation were provided, our relevant Cluster highlights 12 other Sightings involving Linux malware persistence vis cron job manipulation, providing potential detection opportunity ideas.
- PS1034921: Harvest Credentials from Running Processes
- Plugin mimipenguin_lite_v3.o inspects running processes and their arguments to extract passwords or other sensitive secrets.
Threat-Led Defense commentary: MimiPenguin is a known, publicly available credential dumper similar to Mimikatz but specific to targeting Linux systems. It typically dump process memory to harvest passwords and hashes by searching for text strings and regular expressions.