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 ...

I am the founder and CEO of Apriorit, a software development company that provides engineering services globally to tech companies. Nowadays, cyber attackers are armed with an impressive range of ...

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Disclosure: the author of this article is involved with the Ethereum project. There have been a number of very interesting developments in cryptography in the past few years. Satoshi’s blockchain ...

"Obfuscated code is source or machine code that has been made difficult to understand. Programmers may deliberately obfuscate code to conceal its purpose or its logic to prevent tampering, deter ...

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 ...

Andrew Whaley, senior technical director at Promon, explains the problem with Apple’s Xcode update. For app developers, Low-Level Virtual Machine bitcode has been a staple of Apple’s toolchain and the ...

After watching Oracle eat away at Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) business with Oracle Enterprise Linux (OUL), Red Hat has decided to launch a competitive strategy with its RHEL source code that will ...

Minecraft, created by Markus "Notch" Persson long before it became the most successful game of all time and a $2bn payday to Microsoft, was written in Java. Notch obfuscated the code to prevent others ...

Minecraft mods are one of the most iconic parts of the game, allowing gamers to expand the vanilla offerings by adding thousands of new features, gameplay mechanics, and more. Now, Mojang has ...