In an unprecedented move towards cross-platform unity, a set of particularly ambitious malicious Go and npm packages have been spotted bridging the gap between Windows and Linux systems. Yes, finally, something that both factions can agree has made their lives equally miserable. Who knew malware could be the ultimate unifier?

These industrious little packages have been concocted to pull off a masterstroke of digital thievery, silently spawning shells like a magician pulling rabbits from hats. But instead of bunnies, they offer second-stage payloads from servers THAT’LL blow your mind—literally, if you’re not careful. They use both .icu and .tech endpoints, because why settle for one domain when you can have both?

It’s almost poetic how these bits of malicious code have managed to provide us with a cross-platform problem. Maybe it’s a subtle suggestion that we all need to work together to safeguard our data—or at least share a good laugh at how deftly we’ve been outsmarted yet again by the digital underbelly. Kudos, malware-makers, for teaching us the value of cooperative doom!