Attackers are increasingly changing up the techniques used to obfuscate what their software is doing, with one group hiding parts of their code using a variety of techniques swapped out every 37 days ...

Mixed Boolean-Arithmetic (MBA) obfuscation disguises simple operations like x + y behind tangles of arithmetic and bitwise operators. Malware authors and software protectors rely on it because no ...

Skilled attackers continually seek out new attack vectors, while employing evasion techniques to maintain the effectiveness of old vectors, in an ever-changing defensive landscape. Many of these ...

Phishing protection company SlashNext Inc. today announced the launch of Project Phantom, a new virtual stealth mode browser that offers advanced URL analysis and threat detection to its customers.

Cryptographic obfuscation and functional encryption have emerged as pivotal tools in contemporary cryptography, offering novel ways to secure software and data while preserving functionality. At its ...

Identity threat detection and response startup Permiso Security Inc. today released a new open-source tool that helps offensive and defensive security professionals understand how policies could be ...

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 ...

Cookie-gated PHP webshells use obfuscation, php-fpm execution, and cron-based persistence to evade detection in Linux hosting ...

ESET researchers recently described Wslink, a unique and previously undocumented malicious loader that runs as a server and that features a virtual-machine-based obfuscator. There are no code, ...