New eCh0raix Ransomware targets QNAP devices

[imhotep]

For the first time eCh0raix ransomware uses a brute-force credential attack to gain access to QNAP NAS devices.
This has been named eCh0raix as there is a string containing this name in the source code. A strange feature of it is that there seems to be a unique hard-coded public key for each target.
Apparently it is based on Go and uses less than 400 lines of code. The Go language is now fast becoming a threat in the creation of malware.
Another feature of eCh0raix is that it does a check on the language used on the system, and will not encrypt for regions of Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia.

 

[Djice]

Time to learn some GO. It's like the new shit now.
Don't think that this kind of threads are valued here.

 

[Candid-B]

Time to learn some GO. It's like the new shit now.
Don't think that this kind of threads are valued here.

why do you think so ? Besides, can't we write in all known language like c++ programs to prevent any other compiled malicious programs written by using Go language?

 

[Djice]

why do you think so ? Besides, can't we write in all known language like c++ programs to prevent any other compiled malicious programs written by using Go language?

Like I said, GO is becoming/has become something big already.
Personally, I want to write some Prometheus exporters (used for monitoring). Most of the exporters for Prometheus are written in GO.

 

[imhotep]

Like I said, GO is becoming/has become something big already.
Personally, I want to write some Prometheus exporters (used for monitoring). Most of the exporters for Prometheus are written in GO.

You are correct...