A credential-stealing worm hidden in more than 400 compromised npm packages automatically spread across software ecosystems ...

Upwind identified a malicious release of keyv@6.0.0 that harvested AWS, GitHub, and npm credentials via a hidden preinstall script. With 154 million weekly downloads, the compromise had ecosystem-wide ...

Mojang Studios announced Tuesday it will eliminate code obfuscation in Minecraft: Java Edition, marking a significant shift in how the company distributes the game to its modding community. The change ...

A credential phishing campaign that likely relied on AI-generated code to evade detection has been stopped by Microsoft Threat Intelligence. The attack, which targeted organizations in the US, ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered several cryptocurrency packages on the npm registry that have been hijacked to siphon sensitive information such as environment variables from compromised ...

Protecting intellectual property is a critical concern for software developers, and IntelliJ IDEA plugin developers are no exception. Code obfuscation is a crucial technique employed to safeguard ...

Threat actors have used generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to write malicious code in the wild to spread an open source remote access Trojan (RAT). It's one of the first observed examples of ...

To avoid getting flagged, there are some common evasive tricks we can try. For example, you can manually modify the code a little bit to make it not recognizable by any signatures. Or if the antivirus ...

Abstract: JavaScript based attacks have been reported as the top Internet security threats in recent years. Since most of the Internet users rely on anti-virus software to protect themselves from ...