Security researcher Nick Cerne from Bishop Fox claims that malware developers are becoming increasingly drawn to languages such as Rust, Go, and Nim, due to their inherent anti-analysis features and improved evasion of signature-based detection mechanisms. Rust-based malware has numerous technical advantages, including large binaries which increase reverse engineering complexity and optimisations that make disassembly difficult. Cerne demonstrated these advantages with a Rust-based malware dropper using Windows APIs to evade detection.
ClickFix Captcha – A Creative Technique That Allow Attackers Deliver Malware and Ransomware on Windows
The ClickFix Captcha technique exploits user trust to distribute malware, including Quakbot. Users visiting malicious sites encounter a fake captcha directing them to perform actions
