Analysis by Symantec and Carbon Black Threat Hunter Team has concluded that the cybercriminals behind PureRAT are using AI tools to write scripts and code. One of the reasons for this conclusion is that sections of the code powering PureRAT contain emojis.
“Many AIs have a tendency to insert emojis in code comments because they’ve been trained using data from social platforms such as Reddit,” researchers said.
(Write-up by me for Infosecurity Magazine)
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/emojis-in-purerats-code/
