Symantec and Carbon Black warn that users are vulnerable to attacks that are coming through Microsoft’s PowerShell tool, which may arrive in the form of malicious scripts or ransomware. There are ...

PowerShell is a powerful and versatile tool for both Windows sysadmins and hackers, who use it to build malicious scripts that avoid detection. This advice will make it harder for them to do so.

Threat actors are using fake browser updates and software fixes to trick users into cutting/copying and pasting PowerShell scripts loaded with various malware strains — including remote access Trojans ...

Attackers are using social engineering to get users to copy, paste, and run malicious scripts — all while thinking they are helping out the IT team. It’s bad enough that crooks foist malware on us for ...

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, ...

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 ...

A new PowerShell script was posted on Github recently that prompts a victim to enter their login credentials, checks if they are correct, and then sends the credentials to a remote server. This allows ...

Cybercriminals have been developing increasingly sophisticated malware that make use of Windows PowerShell scripts in an attempt to fly under the radar. The Windows PowerShell is a command-line shell ...