The development fits a trend that sees threat actors turning to well-known, commodity malware, overcoming its easy detection with ever-better obfuscation methods. A new malware sample using a rare ...

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 ...

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 looking at more than 10,000 scripts used by the Parrot traffic direction system (TDS) noticed an evolution marked by optimizations that make malicious code stealthier against ...