Reawakening of Emotet: An Analysis of its JavaScript Downloader

Reawakening of Emotet: An Analysis of its JavaScript Downloader

In mid-September 2019, Emotet resumed its activity and we evaluated changes to its operation in a previous blog post by Alex Holland. One of the noticeable changes is that some of the ...
Deobfuscating Ostap: TrickBot’s 34,000 Line JavaScript Downloader

Deobfuscating Ostap: TrickBot’s 34,000 Line JavaScript Downloader

Introduction For a malicious actor to compromise a system, they need to avoid being detected at the point of entry into the target’s network. Commonly, phishing emails delivering malicious attachments (T1193) serve ...
The History of JavaScript [INFOGRAPHIC]

The History of JavaScript [INFOGRAPHIC]

Brendan Eich, a Netscape Communications Corporation programmer, created JavaScript in September 1995. It took Eich only 10 days to develop the scripting language, then known as Mocha.Let’s step back to look at ...