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As others have pointed out, this article is not very convincing. I don't agree with the point that WASM is somehow more suitable for nefarious purposes than obf
by aurelian15 7y ago
As others have pointed out, this article is not very convincing. I don't agree with the point that WASM is somehow more suitable for nefarious purposes than obfuscated JavaScript. I suppose that if anything, the execution model of WASM is much simpler than that of JS and it should thus be much easier to analyse.
> This prevents the user from escaping the scam by pressing keys like ESC or the CTRL+ALT+DELETE combination, or others as shown in the table.
The part about CTRL+ALT+DELETE is just nonsense. This key combination is directly handled by the Windows kernel and cannot be captured by a user space application. Hence the "Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to login" prompt. [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-Alt-Delete#Windows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-Alt-Delete#Windows