Obfuscated (hidden) Javascript attacks were popular among criminal hackers a couple of years ago, and were widely reported by several vendors, who developed heuristic scanning solutions to counter the ...

A research that analyzed over 10,000 samples of diverse malicious software written in JavaScript concluded that roughly 26% of it is obfuscated to evade detection and analysis. Obfuscation is when ...

Over 25% of malicious JavaScript code is obfuscated by so-called 'packers', a software packaging method that has given attackers a way of evading signature-based detection, according to security and ...

Security researchers found malicious code hiding in two VSCode extensions Microsoft quickly pulled them and notifies users ...

Malicious SVG files are being weaponized to secretly like Facebook posts without user consent Attackers hide obfuscated JavaScript in images to bypass detection and execute dangerous social media ...

After a year-long vacation, the Gootkit information-stealing Trojan has returned to life alongside REvil Ransomware in a new campaign targeting Germany. The Gootkit Trojan is Javascript-based malware ...

Researchers have discovered a relatively new way to distribute malware that relies on reading malicious obfuscated JavaScript code stored in a PNG file’s metadata to trigger iFrame injections.

My colleague Daniel Novomeský alerted me to a problem he's observed with the way some web-developers use JavaScript: a few of them have the habit of obfuscating JavaScript code on their web sites, ...