Modern Ransomware Is Being Written In Rust. (Bad News - It Is Extremely Resilient.)

Rust Is Being Adored By Hackers & Disruptors.

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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.