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.

Obfuscated (hidden) Javascript attacks were popular amongst criminal hackers a couple of years ago, and were widely reported by several vendors, who developed heuristic scanning solutions to counter ...

Malware is being distributed by reading malicious obfuscated JavaScript code stored in a PNG file’s metadata to trigger iFrame injections.

An NPM supply-chain attack dating back to December 2021 used dozens of malicious NPM modules containing obfuscated Javascript code to compromise hundreds of downstream desktop apps and websites.

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 ...

The only concrete problem is that the plugin shipped obfuscated JavaScript. There are several incomplete statements about a problem with a sanity.io dependency that may have been compromised.

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

Now they appear to be making a comeback as, in its June 2010 threat landscape, Fortinet says that obfuscated Javascript attacks, as well as new variations of the Sasfis botnet, have entered the ...