Criminals are writing new Malware in Go

From ACM Newsletter:

Criminals Are Jumping on This Niche Programming Language to Write the Latest Malware TechRadar Mayank Sharma March 1, 2021

Cybersecurity company Intezer warns that Google's open source Go programming language has become a popular tool for malware authors, having identified nearly 2,000% growth in new Go-based malware strains in the wild. Intezer's analysis noted that the TIOBE programming community index named Go 2016's Programming Language of the Year, which may have drawn malware writers' interest. Intezer also cited both state-sponsored and non-state sponsored threat actors as Go users, using it to create bots for direct denial-of-service attacks or installing cryptominers that constitute a large portion of current Linux malware written in Go. Intezer suggests Go's networking stack is favored by malefactors because it is a preferred language for writing cloud-native applications.