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 ...

North Korean hackers abuse Visual Studio Code task files in fake job projects to deploy backdoors, spyware, and crypto miners ...

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 ...

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