Security News > 2022 > July > Luca Stealer malware spreads rapidly after code handily appears on GitHub

The Windows software nasty - dubbed Luca Stealer by the folks at Cyble who detected it - is the latest to be built using the Rust programming language.

The researchers wrote in a report that Luca Stealer already has been updated three times, with the developer adding multiple functions, and that they have seen more than 25 samples of the source code in the wild since it was shared via GitHub on July 3, which may lead to wider adoption by the cybercriminal community.

"The developer of the stealer appears to be new on the cybercrime forum and likely leaked the source code of the stealer to build a reputation for themselves," the researchers wrote.

"Rust is to C as Go is to Java," Casey Bisson, head of product and developer enablement at code security business BluBracket, told The Register.

"Threat actors can write malware in Rust that has the same functionality as malware written in more complex languages quicker and more efficiently," Hohenadel said.

Luca Stealer currently only targets Windows OSes, even though Rust is a cross-platform language, according to Cyble researchers.

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