<story><title>Linux.Rex.1 – A multifunctional self-replicating Trojan for Linux written in Go</title><url>http://vms.drweb.com/virus/?_is=1&amp;i=8436299&amp;lng=en</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>f2f</author><text>This is not the first malware to use the Go language. Here is the first, from 2012:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.symantec.com&amp;#x2F;connect&amp;#x2F;blogs&amp;#x2F;malware-uses-google-go-language&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.symantec.com&amp;#x2F;connect&amp;#x2F;blogs&amp;#x2F;malware-uses-google-go...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;i believe at the same time symantec decided to block every binary compiled with Go&amp;#x27;s compiler. because that was easiest.</text></comment>
<story><title>Linux.Rex.1 – A multifunctional self-replicating Trojan for Linux written in Go</title><url>http://vms.drweb.com/virus/?_is=1&amp;i=8436299&amp;lng=en</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stock_toaster</author><text>Maybe soon we will have some malware written in rust.  
You know, for security.</text></comment>