Friday, April 8, 2022, I'm at my desk doing homework. I run my Virtualbox machine and can't figure out why it keeps giving me errors and shutting down, so I go to the UAT Cyber Studies Discord for troubleshooting help. I explained the errors the VM is giving me and am told (by a fellow NetSec student) to run a few tests. The tests include running Task Manager to see if my RAM and CPU are being eaten up by a service, download Malwarebytes and scan the system for viruses, and do an overall check of the system for anything suspicious.
In a recent security report by cybersecurity firm Intezer, they reported that a huge spike of malware strains being coded in Go programming has increased about 2,000% in recent years.
