A research that analyzed over 10,000 samples of diverse malicious software written in JavaScript concluded that roughly 26% of it is obfuscated to evade detection and analysis.

According to a warning from Websense Security Labs, the sites have been discovered to be injected with malicious JavaScript, obfuscated code that leads to an active exploit site.

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Google explains that over 70 percent of malicious and policy-violating extensions that the company blocks from Chrome Web Store today contain obfuscated code.

The first new rule that Google announced today is in regards to code readability. According to Google, starting today, the Chrome Web Store will no longer allow extensions with obfuscated code.

Malicious SVG files on adult websites hide JavaScript that hijacks Facebook sessions, secretly liking posts, and potentially exposing victims to identity theft and credential harvesting.

The malware then executes heavily obfuscated code, using techniques such as hexadecimal references, array recombination, and the eval () function for dynamic decoding.

The official response is that “A theming extension with heavily obfuscated code and unreasonable dependencies including a utility for running child processes”.