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AT&T Alien Labs finds new Golang malware (BotenaGo) targeting millions of routers and IoT devices with more than 30 exploits

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Golang (also known as Go) is an open-source programming language designed by Google and first published in 2007 that makes it easier for developers to build software. As of the publishing of this article, BotenaGo currently has low antivirus (AV) detection rate with only 6/62 known AVs seen in VirusTotal: (Figure 1). Background.

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AT&T Alien Labs finds new Golang malware (BotenaGo) targeting millions of routers and IoT devices with more than 30 exploits

IT threat evolution Q3 2021

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