Melting Pot of macOS Malware Adds Go to Crystal, Nim and Rust Variants

ReaderUpdate, a macOS malware loader platform active since 2020, has evolved to include variants written in Crystal, Nim, Rust, and now Go programming languages. Originally a compiled Python binary, the malware has been largely dormant until late 2024. The loader is capable of executing remote commands, potentially offering Pay-Per-Install or Malware-as-a-Service. It collects system information, creates persistence mechanisms, and communicates with command and control servers. The Go variant, less common than others, uses string obfuscation techniques to hinder analysis. While currently associated with adware delivery, the loader's capabilities pose a potential threat for more malicious payloads in the future.

Pulse ID: 67e41bedc264bcc69a9b8e20
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Pulse Author: AlienVault
Created: 2025-03-26 15:23:25

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Hello Saturday, it's time for the standard, weekly, development report from my #opensource projects. As in previous weeks, a roguelike game and #Nim binding to Nuklear GUI library got some changes. More information: www.laeran.pl.eu.org/blog/devblog... Happy weekend everyone and be well.

Behold, CodeTracer: the revolutionary time-traveling #debugger that nobody asked for, built in #Nim and #Rust because clearly, plain old debuggers weren't confusing enough. Navigating its user-friendly design will ensure you spend more time debugging the debugger than your actual code. Bravo, tech wizards!
https://github.com/metacraft-labs/codetracer #CodeTracer #TimeTravel #DebuggingTech #Wizards #HackerNews #ngated

CodeTracer – A new time-traveling debugger implemented in Nim and Rust — https://github.com/metacraft-labs/codetracer
#HackerNews #CodeTracer #TimeTravel #Debugger #Nim #Rust #Programming #Tools

Here are two screens (cropped for clarity).
The top is from #Amiga and the bottom is from #AtariST.

Both run from the same codebase in #Nim, yet the code is completely different. While I appreciate Amiga for its awesome hardware and capabilities, the AmigaOS API is... ugh, I can't find the English word to describe it. It's bad.

Yet, the ST/STe hardware is so basic it feels like they just glued DMA on 68000 SBC in a weekend. But their APIs? I wish it could swap places with AmigaOS somtimes.

For 2024, I solved Advent of Code in 25 different languages. Was a fun project, sometimes a bit (very) painful (*glances at Erlang and Zig*).

Code (bottom of post) and summary for each language:
https://blog.aschoch.ch/posts/aoc-2024

Keep in mind that I used most of these language for a few hours tops, so my judgement is very much subjective.

What's your favourite of the bunch?

Willkommen zurück roter IC1, wir hatten dich eigentlich nicht vermisst!

Decided to take a break from my terminal stuff so worked on my puzzle project. Swapping projects on the back burner clearly is the way of finishing a project. Added the portal and twice use plastic tiles.

Deadline for talk submissions for our FOSDEM minimalism dev room is in one week! #guix #guile #nim #zig
https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2025-devroom-declarative-and-minimalistic-computing-cfp

Please share! The first weekend of February we are organising a devroom at FOSDEM2025 on *Declarative and Minimalistic Computing* with talks on Lisp, Nim, Lua, Zig etc. Feel free to submit your own project! If you are uncertain ping us. For the submission system etc see https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2025-devroom-declarative-and-minimalistic-computing-cfp @lisp_discussions #lisp #zig #lua #nim

Does anyone know if there is something for #Python that allows one to create stand-alone dependency-free executables a la #Nim? This would effectively solve some of the annoyance of using Python scripts that are meant to be portable.

Er...uh...should I just learn some Nim? I had considered learning Nim a while back, but was discouraged because I saw that one of the core devs was an arsehat.

Small Language Models – More Effective And Efficient For Enterprise AI https://www.byteseu.com/514296/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #FoundationModel #GenAI #Granite3.0 #IBM #LargeLanguageModel #NIM #Nvidia #SmallLanguageModel #watsonx

whats up fediverse #introduction

i'm lucy, a student, leftist, and computer nerd. i like #linux and programming.

i use arch linux and right now my favorite programming language is #nim

i'm also interested in radio and #3dprinting.

mechanical keyboards are also fun for me, i type on #colemak.

i'm transfem and bi.

cats are my favorite animal.

more of my stuff on https://lx12.net

Go developers, what systems language you like? Nim or Zig.

Yes, those are the only two options because they are the only ones I'm concerned about.

As I'm slowly recovering after another "professional" network update of my ISP, here is the standard, weekly development report from my #opensource projects. Well, exactly one, a roguelike game, written in #Nim and #Ada programming languages. Here are more (but not too many ) details: https://www.laeran.pl.eu.org/blog/devblog/2024/weekly-development-report-2024-07-13

As always, happy weekend, everyone. Good time for more sleep.

What happens, when you join two paths in a #programming language when the second one is an absolute one?

join("foo", "/bar")
returns "foo/bar" or "/bar"?

The wonderful @meisterluk wrote a great article about that you might want to read: https://lukas-prokop.at/articles/2024-05-03-filepath-join-behavior

I can not tell what version I'd actually prefer. There are situations where both versions would be "proper".

#Python #Golang #UNIX #POSIX #rust #C++ #CPP #Java #dotNet #Dart #Flutter #Dlang #TCL #Nim #FreePascal #PowerShell #zig

“It is unlikely that you'll write it from scratch or write a whole bunch of #Python code or anything like that," he said on stage during his GTC keynote Monday. "It is very likely that you assemble a team of AI." …

A new AI development Stack?

How do you instruct, verify, test, update, ship those teams of AI together? With a new nVidiaLang Containers of LLM models querying business services against a databases to generate reports… what could possibly go wrong with AI glue code on newly developed virtualised containers?

#nVidia / #LLM / #AIStack / #NIM <https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/19/nvidia_why_write_code_when/?td=rt-9cs>