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The JavaScript (aka JScript) malware loader called GootLoader has been observed using a malformed ZIP archive that's designed to sidestep detection efforts by concatenating anywhere from 500 to 1,000 ...

What Happened in the Shai Hulud JavaScript Attack? A major JavaScript supply-chain attack has compromised more than 400 NPM packages — including at least 10 widely used across the crypto ecosystem — ...

What Happened: So, Google’s top security – Google’s Threat Intelligence Group, or GTIG – just found something that is frankly pretty terrifying. It’s a new type of malware they’re calling PROMPTFLUX.

Researchers at Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) have discovered that hackers are creating malware that can harness the power of large language models (LLMs) to rewrite itself on the fly. An ...

The risk in the JavaScript ecosystem isn't theoretical: earlier this month, a number of packages used by millions of developers were compromised via malicious code. These malware attacks against ...

The breach hit core JavaScript libraries such as chalk and strip-ansi, downloaded billions of times each week, raising alarms over the security of open-source software. Hackers have compromised widely ...

In a newly discovered supply chain attack, attackers last week targeted a range of npm-hosted JavaScript type testing utilities, several of which were successfully compromised to distribute malware.

Deobfuscating JavaScript (JS) code poses a significant challenge in web security, particularly as obfuscation techniques are frequently used to conceal malicious activities within scripts. While Large ...