#go

#go

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Go module that presents itself as a brute-force tool for SSH but actually contains functionality to discreetly exfiltrate credentials to its creator. "On the first successful login, the package sends the target IP address, username, and password to a hard-coded Telegram bot controlled by the threat actor," Socket researcher Kirill Boychenko said. The deceptive package, named "golang-random-ip-ssh-bruteforce," has been linked to a GitHub account called IllDieAnyway (G3TT), which is currently no longer accessible.

Goroutines are lightweight threads that can run concurrently, allowing for multiple tasks to be performed simultaneously without the overhead of traditional threads.

The v0.12 release of gopls features a core rewrite that allows it to scale to larger codebases, enhancing performance and reducing memory usage significantly.

A standardized CI/CD pipeline for microservices should address key challenges such as coordinating cross-service releases, managing backward compatibility, and preventing configuration duplication.

Dead code refers to functions in source code that can't be reached during execution, complicating maintenance. A new tool, 'deadcode,' helps identify such functions.

The dual components of Go interfaces affect equality checks, particularly with nil values, highlighting a subtlety in the language's handling of types and interfaces.