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 ...
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, ...
Windows’ PowerShell scripting utility has been abused by threat actors for decades. But cyber intelligence agencies from the U.S, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand say disabling the capability isn’t ...
Before you can change an ACL, you must get the current one. There are two ways to do this with PowerShell. Learn how to get the current ACL and modify it.
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, ...
Government cybersecurity organizations on Tuesday announced guidelines for using Microsoft's built-in PowerShell scripting language with Windows, without having it also be leveraged by attackers. The ...
Microsoft has released a script to make it easier to patch a BitLocker bypass security vulnerability in the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE). This PowerShell script (KB5025175) simplifies the ...
I ran into a discussion a while back with a collegue that claimed that a lot of clients don't allow us to set up PowerShell scripts for different scheduled maintanence tasks on their servers. I myself ...