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 ...

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 ...

I’m all for open source and freely sharing code, but there are also occasions when it’s necessary to hide some of the mechanics behind a web-based application. That’s where JScrambler comes in, a ...

A new and ongoing supply-chain attack is targeting developers on the OpenVSX and Microsoft Visual Studio marketplaces with ...

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, ...

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

Google today announced five major changes to the Chrome Web Store. The first two are happening now: Developers are being subjected to a more rigorous review process, and the Chrome Web Store no longer ...