Malware is harder to find when written in obscure languages (www.theregister.com)
from cm0002@lemmy.world to cybersecurity@infosec.pub on 30 Mar 02:51
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regrub@lemmy.world on 30 Mar 03:09 next collapse

I wonder if someone’s used Fortran to make malware

vk6flab@lemmy.radio on 30 Mar 03:29 next collapse

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

aramis87@fedia.io on 30 Mar 04:00 next collapse

Hang on, let me dig out my old SNOBOL book!

alsimoneau@lemmy.ca on 30 Mar 10:48 collapse

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

vk6flab@lemmy.radio on 30 Mar 03:15 next collapse

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?

PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat on 30 Mar 03:23 next collapse

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

😀

Kolanaki@pawb.social on 30 Mar 04:05 next collapse

re-writes Diablo in Latin

Affected machines summon actual demons from hell

ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 30 Mar 04:51 next collapse

Brainfuck malware when

cm0002@lemmy.world on 30 Mar 05:18 collapse

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

Lol ig thats as much as they could (sanely) do in brainfuck

RobotToaster@mander.xyz on 30 Mar 05:33 next collapse

BRB, writing a virus in COBOL.

noctivius@lemm.ee on 30 Mar 05:53 collapse

pythOwO