In software engineering, code transforms from human-readable high-level languages like Python or Java into machine-readable binary (machine code). An intermediate step, bytecode, bridges ...

Compilers for languages intended to be machine-independent, such as Java, Python, or C#, translate the source code into byte code for a virtual machine, which is then run in an interpreter for the ...

It’s a virtual machine for AVR microcontrollers. ... Recently there was a supplemental compiler project that even takes Python code and compiles it into VM byte-code.

Credential stealing seems to be the main goal. Once executed on a machine, the fshec2 malicious payload collects information about the system such as usernames, directory listings, and hostnames ...