Lazarus

[Basile B.]

On Thursday, 14 December 2023 at 12:25:30 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
> On Monday, 11 December 2023 at 19:31:48 UTC, Daniel N wrote:
>> DLang is among the newer breed of memory-safe languages being 
>> endorsed by Western security agencies over the past few years, 
>> the same type of language that cyber criminals are switching 
>> to.
>>
>> https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/11/lazarus_group_edang/
>
> The article is mainly fluffy nonsense

I Agree.

> and the slashdot discussion is pathetic. It _is_ interesting 
> that D is being used for malware, maybe because it has a 
> different signature to C/C++ executables and the hackers are 
> hoping it can sidestep some malware identification techniques.

That can be a problem. The risk is that at some point the 
signatures of the AV software got based on the D runtime 
functions, instead of the actual threatening code, creating case 
of false positives. Let's joke a bit: hopefully the group wrote 
their stuff in -betterC.