The result of his efforts is the Google Sheets Virtual Machine, a virtual computer in software using spreadsheet cells as memory, stack, and registers.

The tactic, which involves using a browser script, enables cybercriminals to target only real victims, not security researchers, in their efforts to steal payment card details from victim's machine.

Phishing sites are now using JavaScript to evade detection by checking whether a visitor is browsing the site from a virtual machine or headless device.

According to the Dartlang.org blog, Dart will now focus on compiling to JavaScript, rather than having the virtual machine that directly supports the Dart language further integrated into browsers.

Node leverages Google’s V8 JavaScript virtual machine to interpret JavaScript, and it uses an event-driven non-blocking I/O model that cloud services vendor Joyent — a principal Node advocate ...

One of the most impressive features in Google's open source Chrome web browser is V8, a high-performance JavaScript virtual machine that was developed by a team of specialists in Denmark. Although ...

A special team in Denmark have been working on an updated JavaScript Virtual Machine, called V8, will also be an integral part of Chrome.

A large part of the raw performance gains included in this release relate to optimizations of the existing virtual machine bytecode—especially in the realm of JavaScript function calls.

Environment-dependent JavaScript property values allow for user fingerprinting.

Microsoft announced plans to open-source the JavaScript engine behind its Edge Web browser.