threat-intel JavaScript obfuscation: From party trick to phishing kit This article from Cisco Talos explores the techniques used to obfuscate JavaScript code, primarily for malicious purposes like phishing and malware delivery. The author details various methods of hiding code, including string manipulation, identifier renaming, runtime decoding, and control-flow flattening. They emphasi… Cisco Talos · 3d ago High obfuscationjavascriptmalware
threat-intel Nuclear-Sabotage Malware Benchmark Trips Up Most Frontier AI Models SentinelOne has developed a new benchmark to assess how well frontier AI models can conduct thorough investigations of complex malware, using Fast16 – a malware linked to Iran’s nuclear program – as the test case. The be… SecurityWeek · Jul 23, 2026 Medium IRaimalwareinvestigation
threat-intel Scripting the disassembler: Local agentic reverse engineering through vbdec’s live COM object model This article details a technique developed by Cisco Talos for automating reverse engineering of VB6 binaries using AI agents. The approach leverages the COM object model of VBdec, allowing external scripting tools like C… Cisco Talos · Jun 18, 2026 Medium reverse-engineeringaicom
