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 ...

Google has banned obfuscated code for Chrome Web Store extensions to reduce policy violations in a move likely to affect cryptojackers. Google’s new restrictions on Chrome Web Store extensions ...

[Excerpted from "Malware War: How Malicious Code Authors Battle to Evade Detection," a new, downloadable report available this week on Dark Reading's Advanced Threats Tech Center.] Reverse engineering ...