In February 2026, Kaspersky discovered a set of malicious activities that had been ongoing since late 2025. These activities involved a RAT module written in Go with proxy capabilities, which served as the main stage of the attack. The attack targeted government and diplomatic entities in Southeast Asia and showed a level of sophistication that caught the researcher’s attention.
During the attack, the main malware, dubbed GoSerpent, received an encrypted argument and started communicating with a remote server. It was also used to deploy further malicious tools to collect sensitive data and dump credentials on the system.
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Source: Kaspersky
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