COMMENTARY--I can imagine a world where the computers needed no security. Where there were no passwords, no security checks, and no firewalls. Where the computers communicated freely and shared ...

Researchers say their new software obfuscation scheme is the first time this technique has been successfully accomplished where the underlying piece of software, such as a patch, could not be reverse ...

A new Python-based malware called VVS stealer has been identified, targeting Discord users with stealthy techniques to steal ...

The ease at which criminals can reverse engineer software makes for lucrative transgressions with national security implications, prompting government-backed researchers to seek innovations to shore ...

Attackers are increasingly changing up the techniques used to obfuscate what their software is doing, with one group hiding parts of their code using a variety of techniques swapped out every 37 days ...

There are plenty of tools out there that can decompile compiled assemblies and retrieve the original source code. These decompilers are a threat to your intellectual property, making it imperative ...

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 ...

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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 ...