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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 ...

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 ...

Last month, my colleague Sébastien Duquette detailed the home campaign, a long-lasting operation consisting of compromised web servers running a malicious Apache module named Darkleech (detected by ...

Happy to bare - sorry - share all online? Surely one day we'll wish some things were private. Even as post-privacy activists or social media stars. Finn Brunton, co-author of "Obfuscate," on hiding ...

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 ...

If clarity shines a light on something, obfuscating it is casting a shadow over it. The word “obfuscate” is cloaked in darkness, and often describes things that are shrouded in mystery, are ...

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 ...