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Malware is harder to find when written in obscure languages

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨cm0002@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨cybersecurity@infosec.pub⁩

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/29/malware_obscure_languages/

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  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    the Grip virus, which contained a Brainfuck interpreter coded in Assembly to generate its keycodes

    😀

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  • ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Brainfuck malware when

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    • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      and the Grip virus, which contained a Brainfuck interpreter coded in Assembly to generate its keycodes

      Lol ig that as much as they could do in brainfuck

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    re-writes Diablo in Latin

    Summons actual demons from hell

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  • vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Essentially, if you don’t know what you’re looking for, you won’t find it and if you only look for things you know about, that’s all you’ll find.

    Also, “Boffins”, what the fuck, now you can’t be an ICT Researcher anymore?

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  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    BRB, writing a virus in COBOL.

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  • regrub@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I wonder if someone’s used Fortran to make malware

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    • vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’d be surprised if they hadn’t, or any other language under the sun.

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    • alsimoneau@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Fortran is still widely used. I want a rockstar virus.

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  • noctivius@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    pythOwO

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