Researchers have discovered a new backdoor written in the Go programming language (Golang), which turned their heads due to its heavy level of obfuscation. The backdoor, called Blackrota ...

Tiobe in the summer of 2016 began searching on both the terms “Go” and “Golang” for the language, instead of just the latter. This caused a considerable uptick. Tiobe index ratings are ...

While the first Go-based malware was detected in 2012, it took, however, a few years for Golang to catch on with the malware scene. "Before 2019, spotting malware written in Go was more a rare ...