Hacker adds malicious bitcoin-stealing code to popular JavaScript library. News. Nov 27, 2018 3 mins. ... It could be from a hacker using your printer to scam you. By Taryn Plumb.

The JavaScript (npm) package that got compromised is called eslint-scope, a sub-module of the more famous ESLint, a JavaScript code analysis toolkit. Hacker gained access to a developer's npm account.

Hack is Facebook’s spinoff of the PHP language, working with the HHVM virtual machine. The library, meanwhile, generates code that is written into signed files to prevent undesired modifications.

In creating Hack, Facebook took an approach that was similar to Microsoft’s with TypeScript, which is basically a superset of JavaScript that, like Hack, adds static typing.

In the past, the signal sent from KeyFab was always the same code, but since 1995, ... s possible to hack a car using JavaScript,' Gerard said. ...

Their hack, called the Human Code Project, uses several IBM Watson APIs, including its Natural Language Classifier, to power a search interface for translating JavaScript code terms into plain ...

Over 25% of malicious JavaScript code is obfuscated by so-called 'packers', a software packaging method that has given attackers a way of evading signature-based detection, according to security ...