Code obfuscation is a set of program transformations that make program code and program execution difficult to analyze. First of all, obfuscation hinders manual inspection of program internals. By ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Google announced today five new rules for the Chrome Web Store, the portal where users go to download Chrome extensions. The new rules are primarily meant to prevent malicious extensions from reaching ...

What does the demise of bitcode mean for the future of application security? Your email has been sent For app developers, Low-Level Virtual Machine bitcode has been a staple of Apple’s toolchain and ...

Code obfuscation has been around for a long time. The obfuscated C contest first ran way back in 1984, but there are examples of natural language obfuscation from way earlier in history. Namely ...

WikiLeaks dumped yesterday the source code of a CIA tool called Marble, which according to previously leaked CIA manuals, the Agency classified as a code obfuscation framework. The WikiLeaks dump ...