Security News > 2018 > September > ThreatList: Hackers Turn to Python as Attack Coding Language of Choice
2018-09-27 20:08
More than 20 percent of GitHub repositories containing an attack tool or an exploit proof of concept (PoC) are written in Python.
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https://threatpost.com/threatlist-hackers-turn-to-python-as-attack-coding-language-of-choice/137757/
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