"Malware Makers Using ‘Exotic’ Programming Languages"

Researchers from BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team have found that malware authors are increasingly using rarely spotted programming languages such as Go, Rust, Nim, and DLang to rewrite old tools, create new tools, and to hinder analysis. The team chose those four languages to examine, partly because they fit its detection methodologies and since the languages have strong community backing and could be considered more developed. The researchers stated that using rarely spotted languages and new languages keeps malware author's creations a step or two or three ahead of protection tools.

Threatpost reports: "Malware Makers Using ‘Exotic’ Programming Languages"