Malware authors are increasingly using languages such as Go, Rust, Nim and DLang in order to create new tools and to hinder analysis, researchers have found. Blackberry Research and Intelligence Team published a report on Monday. Use of the languages is escalating in the number of malware families being identified, the report said. Two Russia-based threat actors, APT28 and APT29, have begun to use the more exotic languages in malware sets more often than other groups, the researchers said.
Source: https://threatpost.com/malware-makers-using-exotic-programming-languages/168117/