Unlike many other languages, JavaScript does not distinguish between integers and floating-point numbers. 42 and 3.14 are both Number types. BigInt, as its name suggests, only covers integers, and ...

SEE: This is how Formula 1 teams fight off cyberattacks "These four examples are the output of the same unique packer functionality being used to obfuscate any given JavaScript code," Akamai explains.

However, if a previous statement contains other JavaScript code, that code is executed by the script. This might give the hacker access to all the variables a script has access to, potentially ...