The ban will enter into effect on June 10, at which point Mozilla plans to remove all Firefox extensions that don't meet this criteria and shoot down any future extension submissions that fail to ...

Reverse engineering and tampering attacks threaten every mobile app, yet many apps apply basic code hardening techniques (or none at all!) to defend against these attempts. In fact, research has shown ...

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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 ...

Mozilla will start blocking Firefox add-ons that contain obfuscated code as part of the updated Add-on Policy that aims to rid the portal of third-party malicious code. Come June 10, Mozilla will ...

Blackrota is targeting a security bug in Docker, but is nearly impossible to reverse-analyze. Researchers have discovered a new backdoor written in the Go programming language (Golang), which turned ...

In the new cryptomining module we discovered and described in our previous article, the cybercriminals behind the Stantinko botnet introduced several obfuscation techniques, some of which have not yet ...