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 ...
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 newly-discovered malicious package with layers of obfuscation is disguised as a utility library, with malware essentially ...
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, ...
Hackers have broken into more than 20,000 legitimate Web sites to plant malicious code to be used in drive-by malware attacks. According to a warning from Websense Security Labs, the sites have been ...
HTML, CSS and JavaScript have always been visible to the interested end user. Whether through the good old view source option in your browser, or something a bit more sophisticated – like developer ...
Newly discovered npm package 'fezbox' employs QR codes to hide a second-stage payload to steal cookies from a user's web browser. The package, masquerading as a utility library, leverages this ...
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 ...
OpenCart websites were silently injected with malware that mimics trusted tracking scripts Script hides in analytics tags and quietly swaps real payment forms for fake ones Obfuscated JavaScript ...