Looks like D has managed to make programs safer... malicious programs that is.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vovalex-is-likely-the-first-ransomware-written-in-d/

On Tuesday, 2 February 2021 at 11:46:39 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
> Looks like D has managed to make programs safer... malicious programs that is.
>
> https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vovalex-is-likely-the-first-ransomware-written-in-d/

See there was no issue having a GC. :)

On Tuesday, 2 February 2021 at 11:46:39 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
>
> https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vovalex-is-likely-the-first-ransomware-written-in-d/

Well, I hope they used @safe :)

On Tuesday, 2 February 2021 at 11:46:39 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
> Looks like D has managed to make programs safer... malicious programs that is.
>
> https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vovalex-is-likely-the-first-ransomware-written-in-d/

I hope that the signatures wont wrongly affect phobos and druntime.
That's a risk when everything is statically linked (which seems to be the case here as a comment mentions that the malware size is 32 mb).

On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 01:34:35PM +0000, user1234 via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 February 2021 at 11:46:39 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
> > Looks like D has managed to make programs safer... malicious programs that is.
> > 
> > https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vovalex-is-likely-the-first-ransomware-written-in-d/
> 
> I hope that the signatures wont wrongly affect phobos and druntime. That's a risk when everything is statically linked (which seems to be the case here as a comment mentions that the malware size is 32 mb).

The bad thing about this is that antivirus software may start labelling D programs as malware because they may latch on to phobos/druntime fragments as identifiers for this ransomware.

:-(


T

-- 
Famous last words: I *think* this will work...

Here it is the killer app the D language needed.

On Tuesday, 2 February 2021 at 12:47:36 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 February 2021 at 11:46:39 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
>> Looks like D has managed to make programs safer... malicious programs that is.
>>
>> https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vovalex-is-likely-the-first-ransomware-written-in-d/
>
> See there was no issue having a GC. :)

ehehehehe

;-P

On Tuesday, 2 February 2021 at 14:12:26 UTC, Rumbu wrote:
> Here it is the killer app the D language needed.

😂

On Tuesday, 2 February 2021 at 11:46:39 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
> Looks like D has managed to make programs safer... malicious programs that is.
>
> https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vovalex-is-likely-the-first-ransomware-written-in-d/

I guess it's a good language to use if you're in that business: easy to churn out code cheaply; easy to get low-level access when you need it.

I cross-posted to the D subreddit, BTW:
https://old.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/lbh8gb/vovalex_is_likely_the_first_ransomware_written_in/?

On Tuesday, 2 February 2021 at 14:12:26 UTC, Rumbu wrote:
> Here it is the killer app the D language needed.

And there can be no doubt that whoever wrote it was a real D hacker.