Glossary
Obfuscation
Techniques used to deliberately make code or data difficult for a human or automated tool to read and understand, used both legitimately to protect intellectual property and maliciously to evade antivirus signatures and slow down reverse engineering.
Recent coverage mentioning Obfuscation
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