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 ...

‘A House of Dynamite’ Editor Kirk Baxter on Why the Script ‘Frightened’ Him, but Also Felt Like It Was Written for Him

Baxter joined IndieWire's craft roundtables to explain why Noah Oppenheim's script presented such a perfect editing opportunity.

This fresh new text editor is the nano replacement I've been waiting for

For Linux and MacOS, Fresh is the best of both worlds - a terminal text editor with GUI-like options. I'm all for it.

‘Black Bag’: Read The Screenplay For The Spy Drama That Reteams Steven Soderbergh And David Koepp

Black Bag starring Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett reunites director Steven Soderberg with screenwriter David Koepp for ...
IEEE

Invoke-Deobfuscation: AST-Based and Semantics-Preserving Deobfuscation for PowerShell Scripts

Abstract: In recent years, PowerShell has been widely used in cyber attacks and malicious PowerShell scripts can easily evade the detection of anti-virus software through obfuscation. Existing ...

Microsoft will finally kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havoc

Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years ...

Gemini vs. Copilot: I compared the AI tools on 7 everyday tasks, and there's a clear winner

Hello, fellow humans! AI chatbots will soon replace us. They have access to more knowledge than our puny brains can hold, and ...

New Splunk Windows Flaw Enables Privilege Escalation Attacks

Splunk for Windows has a high-severity flaw that lets local users escalate privileges through misconfigured file permissions.
GitHub

A Precise and General Dynamic Deobfuscation Method for PowerShell Scripts

base environment: refer to PowerShell official build instruction.net core 7.0.101 pwsh/powershell If you want the datasets (D-Script and D-Cmdline), please send me an email. My email address is ...
GitHub

Run scripts and apps with no console window displayed

RunHidden launches (almost) any script or console application with the console window 100% suppressed. It runs PowerShell scripts (ps1 extension), batch files (cmd and bat extensions), and Python ...