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cm0002@lemmy.world to cybersecurity@infosec.pub · 2 months ago

Malware is harder to find when written in obscure languages

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Malware is harder to find when written in obscure languages

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cm0002@lemmy.world to cybersecurity@infosec.pub · 2 months ago
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: Miscreants warming to Delphi, Haskell, and the like to evade detection
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  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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    the Grip virus, which contained a Brainfuck interpreter coded in Assembly to generate its keycodes

    😀

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    Brainfuck malware when

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      and the Grip virus, which contained a Brainfuck interpreter coded in Assembly to generate its keycodes

      Lol ig thats as much as they could (sanely) do in brainfuck

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    re-writes Diablo in Latin

    Affected machines summon actual demons from hell

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
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    Essentially, if you don’t know what you’re looking for, you won’t find it and if you only look for things you know about, that’s all you’ll find.

    Also, “Boffins”, what the fuck, now you can’t be an ICT Researcher anymore?

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    BRB, writing a virus in COBOL.

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    I wonder if someone’s used Fortran to make malware

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      I’d be surprised if they hadn’t, or any other language under the sun.

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      Hang on, let me dig out my old SNOBOL book!

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      Fortran is still widely used. I want a rockstar virus.

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    pythOwO

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