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English => News => Topic started by: Redaktion on November 13, 2021, 14:24:33

Title: Open source Botenago malware could potentially affect millions of routers and IoT devices
Post by: Redaktion on November 13, 2021, 14:24:33
Written in Google's own open source Golang programming language, Botenago could potentially affect millions of routers connected to the internet as well as IoT devices.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Open-source-Botenago-malware-could-potentially-affect-millions-of-routers-and-IoT-devices.579008.0.html
Title: Re: Open source Botenago malware could potentially affect millions of routers and IoT devices
Post by: John92132 on November 15, 2021, 02:47:29
I recently came across open source code written in Go intended to be used to create malware. I was a bit suprised it was even allowed on Github.

It is publiclly available for anyone to use in a project to help them make malware.