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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Could malicious backdoors be hiding in your code, that otherwise appears perfectly clean to the human eye and text editors alike? A security researcher has shed light on how invisible characters can ...

Google’s new restrictions on Chrome Web Store extensions introduced Monday, October 1, are likely to affect cryptojackers. In a blog post, Google confirmed that as of now, Chrome extensions submitted ...

Minecraft, created by Markus "Notch" Persson long before it became the most successful game of all time and a $2bn payday to Microsoft, was written in Java. Notch obfuscated the code to prevent others ...

The creators behind the long-running Internet contest to write bizarre and unnecessarily complex C programming code, called the International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC), have resurrected their ...

The International Obfuscated C Contest – the contest to create the most useful, useless, or unique program in absolutely unreadable C code – has just posted the winners of the 2013 contest. Of the ...

The IOCCC has returned to collect a fresh batch of mind-bogglingly difficult-to-understand C code The creators behind the long-running Internet contest to write bizarre and unnecessarily complex C ...