This year, ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) groups like BlackCat, Hive, and RansomExx have developed versions of their ransomware in Rust, a cross-platform language that makes it easier to tailor malware to different operating systems like Windows and Linux. In this blog entry, we shed light on Agenda (also known as Qilin), another ransomware group that has started…

Go, or Golang, is an open source programming language designed for building reliable and efficient software at scale. Supported by Google, Go is leveraged by some of the world’s largest companies and it’s often used to develop cloud-native apps, including for Kubernetes. Oxeye researchers have conducted an analysis of Go-based cloud-native applications and discovered an…