• Daniel N (4/4) Dec 11 2023 DLang is among the newer breed of memory-safe languages being
• Lance Bachmeier (4/8) Dec 11 2023 Has North Korea been contributing to the D Language Foundation?
• Paolo Invernizzi (3/7) Dec 12 2023 Now on Slashdot ... I guess for a spike in the website statistics
• Walter Bright (2/5) Dec 13 2023 https://it.slashdot.org/story/23/12/12/0446208/lazarus-cyber-group-deplo...
• Abdulhaq (6/10) Dec 14 2023 The article is mainly fluffy nonsense and the slashdot discussion
• Basile B. (7/19) Dec 14 2023 That can be a problem. The risk is that at some point the

Daniel N <no public.email> writes:

DLang is among the newer breed of memory-safe languages being 
endorsed by Western security agencies over the past few years, 
the same type of language that cyber criminals are switching to.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/11/lazarus_group_edang/

Lance Bachmeier <no spam.net> writes:

On Monday, 11 December 2023 at 19:31:48 UTC, Daniel N wrote:
 DLang is among the newer breed of memory-safe languages being 
 endorsed by Western security agencies over the past few years, 
 the same type of language that cyber criminals are switching to.

 https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/11/lazarus_group_edang/

Has North Korea been contributing to the D Language Foundation? 
Have they been invited to the quarterly meetings to let us know 
the problems they're running into?

Paolo Invernizzi <paolo.invernizzi gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 11 December 2023 at 19:31:48 UTC, Daniel N wrote:
 DLang is among the newer breed of memory-safe languages being 
 endorsed by Western security agencies over the past few years, 
 the same type of language that cyber criminals are switching to.

 https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/11/lazarus_group_edang/

Now on Slashdot ... I guess for a spike in the website statistics 
...

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

On 12/12/2023 9:30 AM, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
 https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/11/lazarus_group_edang/

 
 Now on Slashdot ... I guess for a spike in the website statistics ...

https://it.slashdot.org/story/23/12/12/0446208/lazarus-cyber-group-deploys-dlang-malware-strains

Abdulhaq <alynch4048 gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 11 December 2023 at 19:31:48 UTC, Daniel N wrote:
 DLang is among the newer breed of memory-safe languages being 
 endorsed by Western security agencies over the past few years, 
 the same type of language that cyber criminals are switching to.

 https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/11/lazarus_group_edang/

The article is mainly fluffy nonsense and the slashdot discussion 
is pathetic. It _is_ interesting that D is being used for 
malware, maybe because it has a different signature to C/C++ 
executables and the hackers are hoping it can sidestep some 
malware identification techniques.

Basile B. <b2.temp gmx.com> writes:

On Thursday, 14 December 2023 at 12:25:30 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
 On Monday, 11 December 2023 at 19:31:48 UTC, Daniel N wrote:
 DLang is among the newer breed of memory-safe languages being 
 endorsed by Western security agencies over the past few years, 
 the same type of language that cyber criminals are switching 
 to.

 https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/11/lazarus_group_edang/

 The article is mainly fluffy nonsense

I Agree.

 and the slashdot discussion is pathetic. It _is_ interesting 
 that D is being used for malware, maybe because it has a 
 different signature to C/C++ executables and the hackers are 
 hoping it can sidestep some malware identification techniques.

That can be a problem. The risk is that at some point the 
signatures of the AV software got based on the D runtime 
functions, instead of the actual threatening code, creating case 
of false positives. Let's joke a bit: hopefully the group wrote 
their stuff in -betterC.