Wednesday, July 15, 2015

HTML5 Features Efficient for Web Exploit Obfuscation: Researchers

From Security Week:

HTML5 Features Efficient for Web Exploit Obfuscation: Researchers

Some of the features introduced in HTML5 can be used to obfuscate web-based exploits in an effort to increase their chances of evading security solutions, according to researchers.

Researchers from the University of Salerno and the Sapienza University of Rome in Italy have used three different techniques to obfuscate exploits like the ones usually leveraged in drive-by download attacks. Based on their experiments, the experts have determined that functionality provided by HTML5 can be highly efficient for malware obfuscation.

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