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 ...

JavaScript, the ubiquitous scripting language used across Web applications worldwide, is becoming a key ingredient in phishing campaigns looking to plant malicious code on victims' computers, new ...

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 ...

JavaScript obfuscation continues to be a favored method among cyberattackers for sneaking past defenses to deliver a broad range of payloads. However, even a good method for flagging the presence of ...

Two phishing campaigns, each using a different stealthy infection technique, are targeting organizations in attacks which aim ...

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, ...

In this guide, we explain what obfuscation does, how obfuscated servers can enhance your digital privacy, and when obfuscation is most beneficial. An obfuscated VPN server uses encryption to scramble ...