Go malware is now common, having been adopted by both APTs and e-crime groups
There s been a 2,000% increase of new malware written in Go over the past few years.
February 26, 2021 13:09 GMT (05:09 PST) | Topic: Security
The number of malware strains coded in the Go programming language has seen a sharp increase of around 2,000% over the last few years, since 2017, cybersecurity firm Intezer said in a report published this week.
The company s findings highlight and confirm a general trend in the malware ecosystem, where malware authors have slowly moved away from C and C++ to Go, a programming language developed and launched by Google in 2007.