March 13, 2024, 2:56 a.m. | Tushar Subhra Dutta

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Rust’s strong focus on memory safety, which prevents common vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows, makes it a choice for threat actors to use Rust-based backdoors. Moreover, the performance of this language is appealing to many, and due to this, they prefer using it when creating malware that is both efficient and stealthy. Not only that, […]


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