The operator of at least one website has been spotted using small windows hidden under the user's Windows taskbar to continue to operate an in-browser miner even after the user closed the main browser ...

Researchers show how rogue web applications can be used to attack vulnerable browser extensions in a hack that gives adversaries access to private user data. Researchers have added another reason to ...

A chainsaw can make short work of clearing out the back forty. It can also make a good horror movie. So while some people will say we don’t need another tool to allow more malicious scripting in the ...

A free-to-use script that helps website owners show EU cookie consent popups is dropping an in-browser cryptocurrency miner on websites that use it. The hidden miner came to light today when Dutch ...

Typically, writing programs for Web browsers means that you don't have access to a user's computer and file system. But by using ActiveX objects on Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer, you can ...

A new project from Anaconda delivers the Python runtime in a web page, via a single JS include, and with access to many popular Python packages. Anaconda, makers of the Python distribution for ...