If clarity shines a light on something, obfuscating it is casting a shadow over it. The word “obfuscate” is cloaked in darkness, and often describes things that are shrouded in mystery, are ...

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Word of the day: Language does not only illuminate; at times, it conceals. Obfuscate is a word that captures this deliberate act of making something unclear, confusing or difficult to understand.

Advanced nation-state and cybercrime groups increasingly are hiding behind legitimate Microsoft Windows functions to mask their hacks - and their latest method ups the ante in abuses of the basic ...

A new obfuscation-as-a-service platform detailed by researchers today during the Botconf 2020 virtual conference offers yet another proof point of how robust the cybercriminal economy is at filling ...