A cryptocurrency thief got into the npm account of a hard-working developer via spearphishing. node.js packages with billions ...

A large-scale supply chain attack on the JavaScript ecosystem has prompted an urgent warning from Ledger’s chief technology ...

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.

Mozilla announces ban on Firefox extensions containing obfuscated code Mozilla also plans to be more aggressive towards taking down extensions that break its policies, with a focus on security issues.

Google has banned obfuscated code for Chrome Web Store extensions to reduce policy violations in a move likely to affect cryptojackers.

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 ...