Hundreds of GitHub repositories seemingly offering “free game cheats” deliver malware, including the Vidar infostealer, ...

PowerShell providers are a way to access data stores, such as the registry or the file system, as if they were drives in the file system. This allows you to use familiar commands, such as cd and dir, ...

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Notepad++, one of the most widely used text editors on Windows, has rolled out version 8.8.9 to patch a serious security flaw that allowed attackers to hijack its update process and push malicious ...

A new malware campaign using a Python-based delivery chain to deploy the emerging CastleLoader family has been discovered by cybersecurity researchers. According to Blackpoint, the activity revolves ...

The threat actor known as Storm-0249 is likely shifting from its role as an initial access broker to adopt a combination of more advanced tactics like domain spoofing, DLL side-loading, and fileless ...

A fresh wave of ClickFix attacks is using fake Windows update screens to trick victims into downloading infostealer malware.… ClickFix is a type of social engineering technique that tricks users into ...

PS2EXE installs through the PowerShell Gallery, so you can set it up quickly. Open Windows Terminal or PowerShell as administrator. Run the module installation command: Install-Module -Name PS2EXE ...

Year after year, LNK files are exploited in malware attacks, mainly because a core vulnerability hides malicious content from users. Microsoft has not yet fixed the flaw, so we must be cautious when ...

Recently documented Curly COMrades group bypasses traditional host-based EDR solutions by spinning up VMs with deceptive names using Windows’ own bare-metal hypervisor. Cyberespionage groups are ...