The reasons for Go's rising popularity among malware authors are many and include the fact that detection of Go malware is still spotty, analyzing Go malware is usually more complicated than malware written in C, C++ or C#, and that Go also allows operators to easily compile binaries for different platforms easier than other languages, allowing malware operators to create multi-platform malware easier than before.
- "ElectroRAT is extremely intrusive," researchers said today in a report shared with ZDNet. "It has various capabilities such as keylogging, taking screenshots, uploading files from disk, downloading files, and executing commands on the victim's console."