WHAT—
... "They point to how security researchers hated Visual Basic 6 binaries due to the complexity of reverse engineering the software, the presence of a Lua obfuscation layer in the 2012 Flame malware, and the Grip virus, which contained a Brainfuck interpreter coded in Assembly to generate its keycodes, as examples."
It can only be a matter of time until malware authors stumble across CLC-INTERCAL. And then we'll ALL be sorry!
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/29/malware_obscure_languages/?td=rt-3a
@cstross A. Brainfuck. Interpreter.
What’s next? And embedded Malbolge transpiler transforming Befunge to JavaScript?
(The worse part would be the JavaScript one)
@jguillaumes @cstross Heh, I wrote a #Brainfuck interpreter once, many years ago. I wonder if I find it again.
@etchedpixels @cstross Talk about staring at the abyss…
@jguillaumes @etchedpixels @cstross The abyss shuffled away nervously muttering about having to see a man about a dog at that suggestion!