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Researchers Compare Malware Development in Rust vs C and C++

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.

Source: gbhackers.com –

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