The technique exploits Unicode Private Use Area characters, which render as zero-width whitespace in virtually every code ...
An ongoing attack is uploading hundreds of malicious packages to the open source node package manager (NPM) repository in an attempt to infect the devices of developers who rely on code libraries ...
A malicious package in the Node Package Manager index uses invisible Unicode characters to hide malicious code and Google Calendar links to host the URL for the command-and-control location. The ...
An unknown threat actor is deploying a large-scale, sophisticated cryptojacking campaign through a series of malicious extensions in Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s lightweight source-code editor, ...
Marketers promote AI-assisted developer tools as workhorses that are essential for today’s software engineer. Developer platform GitLab, for instance, claims its Duo chatbot can “instantly generate a ...
A newly identified North Korean threat actor has widened its distribution of malicious node package manager (npm) code to public registries. And it's differentiating itself from other state-sponsored ...
Antivirus has come a long way since its early signature-based roots, but even the most advanced versions cannot keep up with the speed and complexity of current cyber threats. By Ivaan Captieux, ...
Large language models are no longer just productivity tools or coding assistants; they are rapidly becoming force multipliers for cybercrime. As guardrails on mainstream systems tighten, a parallel ...
Attackers can hide their attempts to execute malicious code by inserting commands into the machine code stored in memory by the software interpreters used by many programming languages, such as ...