Modern Ransomware Is Being Written In Rust. (Bad News - It Is Extremely Resilient.)
Rust Is Being Adored By Hackers & Disruptors.
Rust has been the most loved language among developers for almost a decade straight.
Unfortunately (but not surprisingly), Rust is getting popular amongst Cybercriminals as well.
BlackCat, a ransomware group that affected more than 200 organizations just in 2022 is one of the major bad players in the ransomware game.
Let alone infecting machines by itself, it’s offering a RaaS (Ransomware-as-a-Service) affiliate program on the dark web.
And guess what, it is writing its Ransomware in Rust.
