‘Users Must Choose’—Microsoft Confirms New Windows Security Feature

Microsoft has made security changes to one of the most popular tools bundled with Windows installations, and now users must ...

Fake MAS Windows activation domain used to spread PowerShell malware

A typosquatted domain impersonating the Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS) tool was used to distribute malicious PowerShell ...
Computer Weekly

PowerShell security threats greater than ever, researchers warn

Microsoft’s Windows PowerShell configuration management framework continues to be abused by cyber attackers, according to researchers, who have seen a surge in associated threats. In March 2016, ...
Bleeping Computer

Malware Retrieves PowerShell Scripts from DNS Records

Malware researchers have come across a new Remote Access Trojan (RAT) that uses a novel technique to evade detection on corporate networks by fetching malicious PowerShell commands stored inside a ...
MyBroadband

Suspected AI-generated PowerShell scripts used in cyberattack

Multiple organisations in Germany have become the victims of a cyberattack that used PowerShell scripts likely created by artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and ...
Computer Weekly

Fileless attacks surge as hackers exploit PowerShell scripts

The latest quarterly threat report from McAfee noted a fourfold increase in fileless hacking attacks utilising Microsoft PowerShell scripts. PowerShell is used mainly to automate administration tasks, ...