Security firm Trend Micro has discovered an attack on home routers that involves malicious JavaScript, a mobile website, and a mobile device such as a smartphone. This attack has been taking place ...

Understanding how malware attacks work is vital to defend against them. To ease this process, threat analysts have developed models that map the stages of cybersecurity attacks, allowing defenders to ...

Researchers have devised a new attack that can bypass one of the main exploit mitigations in browsers: address space layout randomization (ASLR). The attack takes advantage of how modern processors ...

Five researchers from the Vrije University in the Netherlands have put together an attack that can be carried out via JavaScript code and break ASLR protection on at least 22 processor ...

A new malvertising attack observed in the wild relies on a less used technique to hide the malicious payload. The authors turned to polyglot images to add the JavaScript code that redirects to a page ...

Hackers are using the jQuery JavaScript library to inject malicious code into millions of Wordpress and Joomla Web domains, researchers say. According to cybersecurity firm Avast, fake jQuery ...

Security researchers have discovered what appears to be the first browser side-channel attack that's Javascript-free, and Apple M1 chips may be more vulnerable to it. According to a research paper ...

The new Rowhammer exploit doesn't just target hardware -- it uses Javascript to do it, and can run within a web browser. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...

For a decade, every major operating system has relied on a technique known as address space layout randomization to provide a first line of defense against malware attacks. By randomizing the computer ...

Researchers have devised a new attack that can bypass one of the main exploit mitigations in browsers: Address space layout randomization (ASLR). The attack takes advantage of how modern processors ...