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 ...

LummaC2, an infostealer malware actively exploiting PowerShell commands, has resurfaced to infiltrate and exfiltrate sensitive data. Discovered by cybersecurity researchers at Ontinue, the malware’s ...

An effort to reverse-engineer malicious AppleScript has led to the creation of a tool to analyze run-only malware targeting the Mac operating system, undermining a common attacker approach to ...

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 ...

At one point while browsing the web you have probably run into a web site that pretends to be Microsoft or Google stating that something is wrong with your computer and telling you to call a listed ...

[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 ...