Next-Generation Self-Learning Virus: Google Sounds the Alarm

🤖 A virus that thinks, learns, and evades traps — and this is no longer science fiction

Google researchers have identified a new type of malware called PROMPTFLUX — arguably one of the most alarming signals in cybersecurity in recent years. While classic viruses were like hard-coded mechanisms with fixed code that could be studied, dissected, and neutralized, a fundamentally new type of digital threat has emerged — self-configuring, self-learning, and constantly mutating programs.

PROMPTFLUX uses artificial intelligence to rewrite its own code in real time. It doesn’t just hide — it evolves before your eyes, adapting to the environment, user behavior, and attempts to catch it. Essentially, it’s a digital chameleon that changes color faster than an antivirus can blink.

Why it’s particularly dangerous

• The virus adapts to the specific device owner. When someone logs into online banking, PROMPTFLUX can replace the recipient’s details directly on the screen. No pop-ups, no “Error!” messages. Everything smooth, quiet, and believable.
  
  
  
• Thanks to AI, it can mimic the victim’s communication style. It can send messages to friends, colleagues, or relatives, perfectly imitating familiar expressions, sentence structures, and even favorite jokes. The person will believe they’re communicating with a real human.
• PROMPTFLUX dynamically changes the appearance of files, links, and notifications. Today it looks like a system update, tomorrow a familiar messenger message, the day after a bank button. Each time it appears exactly where it “belongs.”

What about protection?

Attempting to remove it is like trying to catch smoke with your hands. As soon as an antivirus starts cleaning, the virus instantly rewrites itself, goes into hiding, erases traces, and creates a new version resistant to the detected defense method.

The classic “find a dangerous file — delete it” approach no longer works. Adaptive threats are taking over, behaving like living organisms.

The bad news

Google reports an explosive growth of illegal AI tools in the dark web.

• State-sponsored hacker groups from North Korea, Iran, and China are actively testing such technologies.
• The entry barrier is dropping — what used to require elite cyber groups can now be executed by even a beginner armed with a PROMPTFLUX-like tool.

We are entering an era where viruses are no longer just programs, but fully-fledged digital organisms: they learn, mimic human behavior, evolve under environmental pressure, and turn devices into controlled “doubles” of their owners.

⚠️ If the old advice was “don’t click on suspicious links,” now it seems we must add: “and carefully verify that you actually wrote the text yourself.”