Malware Uses Google Go Language

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Malware Uses Google Go Language
Botnet	Encriyoko
Malware	Trojan.Encriyoko
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CCProtocol
Date	2012 / 2012-09-18
Editor/Conference	Symantec
Link	http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/malware-uses-google-go-language (Archive copy)
Author	Flora Liu
Type	Blogpost

Abstract

“ Designed in 2007 and introduced in late 2009, the Go programming language developed by Google has been gaining momentum the past three years. It is now being used to develop malware. Recently seen in the wild, Trojan.Encriyoko is a new threat associated with components which are written in Go. The Trojan attempts to encrypt various file formats on compromised computers, rendering the encrypted files unusable...

Bibtex

 @misc{Liu2012BFR1347,
   editor = {Symantec},
   author = {Flora Liu},
   title = {Malware Uses Google Go Language},
   date = {18},
   month = Sep,
   year = {2012},
   howpublished = {\url{http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/malware-uses-google-go-language}},
 }