ZDNet

Hackers are disguising their malicious JavaScript code with a hard-to-beat trick

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 ...
ZDNet

20,000 sites hit with drive-by attack code

Hackers have broken into more than 20,000 legitimate Web sites to plant malicious code to be used in drive-by malware attacks. According to a warning from Websense Security Labs, the sites have been ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

Obfuscated Javascript malware making a comeback

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 ...
Dark Reading

JavaScript Packing Found in More Than 25% of Malicious Sites

JavaScript obfuscation continues to be a favored method among cyberattackers for sneaking past defenses to deliver a broad range of payloads. However, even a good method for flagging the presence of ...
Dark Reading

JavaScript Obfuscation Moves to Phishing Emails

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 ...
Bleeping Computer

Google Adds New Rules To End Malicious Chrome Extensions

Whether it is because of a overworked reviewers, obfuscated code, or the use of external scripts, Malicious Chrome extensions have become a huge problem for Google with new ones being added to the ...
Bleeping Computer

TrickBot malware uses obfuscated Windows batch script to evade detection

With the 100th release of TrickBot, the malware came equipped with new and advanced evasive capabilities. One such capability is its use of an obfuscated batch script launcher to jumpstart malicious ...