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Lazarus
Dec 11, 2023
Daniel N
Dec 11, 2023
Lance Bachmeier
Dec 12, 2023
Paolo Invernizzi
Dec 13, 2023
Walter Bright
Dec 14, 2023
Abdulhaq
Dec 14, 2023
Basile B.
December 11, 2023

DLang is among the newer breed of memory-safe languages being endorsed by Western security agencies over the past few years, the same type of language that cyber criminals are switching to.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/11/lazarus_group_edang/

December 11, 2023

On Monday, 11 December 2023 at 19:31:48 UTC, Daniel N wrote:

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DLang is among the newer breed of memory-safe languages being endorsed by Western security agencies over the past few years, the same type of language that cyber criminals are switching to.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/11/lazarus_group_edang/

Has North Korea been contributing to the D Language Foundation? Have they been invited to the quarterly meetings to let us know the problems they're running into?

December 12, 2023

On Monday, 11 December 2023 at 19:31:48 UTC, Daniel N wrote:

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DLang is among the newer breed of memory-safe languages being endorsed by Western security agencies over the past few years, the same type of language that cyber criminals are switching to.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/11/lazarus_group_edang/

Now on Slashdot ... I guess for a spike in the website statistics ...

December 13, 2023
On 12/12/2023 9:30 AM, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
>> https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/11/lazarus_group_edang/
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> Now on Slashdot ... I guess for a spike in the website statistics ...

https://it.slashdot.org/story/23/12/12/0446208/lazarus-cyber-group-deploys-dlang-malware-strains
December 14, 2023

On Monday, 11 December 2023 at 19:31:48 UTC, Daniel N wrote:

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DLang is among the newer breed of memory-safe languages being endorsed by Western security agencies over the past few years, the same type of language that cyber criminals are switching to.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/11/lazarus_group_edang/

The article is mainly fluffy nonsense and the slashdot discussion is pathetic. It is interesting that D is being used for malware, maybe because it has a different signature to C/C++ executables and the hackers are hoping it can sidestep some malware identification techniques.

December 14, 2023

On Thursday, 14 December 2023 at 12:25:30 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:

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On Monday, 11 December 2023 at 19:31:48 UTC, Daniel N wrote:

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DLang is among the newer breed of memory-safe languages being endorsed by Western security agencies over the past few years, the same type of language that cyber criminals are switching to.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/11/lazarus_group_edang/

The article is mainly fluffy nonsense

I Agree.

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and the slashdot discussion is pathetic. It is interesting that D is being used for malware, maybe because it has a different signature to C/C++ executables and the hackers are hoping it can sidestep some malware identification techniques.

That can be a problem. The risk is that at some point the signatures of the AV software got based on the D runtime functions, instead of the actual threatening code, creating case of false positives. Let's joke a bit: hopefully the group wrote their stuff in -betterC.