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 ...

My colleague Daniel Novomeský alerted me to a problem he's observed with the way some web-developers use JavaScript: a few of them have the habit of obfuscating JavaScript code on their web sites, ...

Researchers have discovered a relatively new way to distribute malware that relies on reading malicious obfuscated JavaScript code stored in a PNG file’s metadata to trigger iFrame injections.

VANCOUVER, BC -- Malicious hackers are starting to encrypt JavaScript files to escape anti-virus detection, adding another element of sophistication to browser-based malware attacks. But, according to ...

Google today announced five major changes to the Chrome Web Store. The first two are happening now: Developers are being subjected to a more rigorous review process, and the Chrome Web Store no longer ...