Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Digital forensics, AI, deepfakes, and what becomes proof in court. Recent reports have uncovered a series of malicious extensions ...

Security researchers at Apiiro have released two free, open-source tools designed to detect and block malicious code before they are added to software projects to curb supply chain attacks. The two ...

A long-running malware campaign quietly evolved over several years and turned trusted Chrome and Edge extensions into spyware. A detailed report from Koi Security reveals that the ShadyPanda operation ...

The NPM ecosystem has suffered another supply chain attack in which a malicious package has accumulated millions of downloads ...

Security software has operated on the same principle for a long time.Identify threats by matching them against patterns of ...

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 ...

The tools work by detecting two anti-patterns the researchers pinpointed after analyzing thousands of malicious code instances in repositories and packages: obfuscated / unreadable source code, and ...

Cybersecurity researchers said an experiment in developing a fake, malicious extension for the world's most popular integrated development environment succeeded beyond their wildest expectations. See ...

Malicious npm package indexed-btree hid its loader in runtime code, avoiding install hooks after logging millions of downloads.

Scammers are finding ways to sneak QR codes through endpoint scanning. (Image: Shutterstock) Scammers are tweaking their approach to building QR codes to better bypass defenses designed to spot and ...

If you’re one of the 73% of Americans who has scanned a QR code without verification, you’ve opened yourself up to malicious behavior and potentially to getting hacked. As reported by CNBC, millions ...

An ongoing npm malware campaign involving the 'indexed-btree' package shows how threat actors bypass supply chain defenses by hiding malicious code in a package's normal runtime behavior rather than ...