Microsoft takes down over 100 malicious Edge extensions hiding malware in images and fonts

Microsoft says these 119 malicious extensions were downloaded a total of 2.6 million times since 2021.
Infosecurity-magazine.com

Malicious Microsoft VS Code Extensions Used in Cryptojacking Campaign

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, ...
InfoWorld

Tackle malicious Web code without infecting yourself

How do you investigate potentially malicious Web page code without infecting yourself? As a computer security defender, I’m often in a position where I need to investigate a potentially malicious Web ...
Dark Reading

Attacks on Bytecode Interpreters Conceal Malicious Injection Activity

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 ...
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Threat actors are injecting malicious codes into legitimate crypto projects

Malicious actors are now injecting malicious codes into legitimate projects to steal digital assets from unsuspecting users. According to reports, cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a ...
CSOonline

Malicious npm packages found to create a backdoor in legitimate code

Researchers found malicious packages on the npm registry that, when installed, inject malicious code into legitimate npm packages already residing on developers’ machines. Attackers who target ...