Hacking with Go: Part 1 (Go Time #205)

Natalie and Mat explore hacking in Go from the eyes of 2 security researchers. Joakim Kennedy and JAGS have both used Go for hacking: writing malware, hardware hacking, reverse engineering Go code, and more.

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Featuring:

• Joakim Kennedy – Website, GitHub, X
• Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade – Website, X
• Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
• Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X

Show Notes:

• 🎧 Hacking with Go: Part 2
• AlphaGolang
• Sunburst, part of the SolarWinds attack report 1 report 2
• Flareon challenge?
• Malware using IPFS
  • one
  • two
  • three
• Ninja jobs - security jobs portal
• Go Reverse Engineering Tool Kit has both a library and a CLI tool to analyze Go binaries
• Zebrocy, malware written in soooo many languages
• “High profile ransomware written in Go”
  • EKANS
  • Nephilim
  • Robinhood
  • Babuk
  • Hive

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