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 ...
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 ...
Business.com on MSN

Understanding functions in PowerShell

Don’t copy and paste the same code over and over again. Instead, create a PowerShell function and save yourself time.

‘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 ...
Bleeping Computer

Windows PowerShell now warns when running Invoke-WebRequest scripts

Microsoft says Windows PowerShell now warns when running scripts that use the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet to download web content, aiming to prevent potentially risky code from executing. As Microsoft ...
XDA Developers on MSN

BurntToast is the best way to make custom Windows notifications

BurntToast is an open-source PowerShell module that generates standard toast notifications that appear in the bottom-right corner. The module supports Windows 10 and newer versions as well as Windows ...
GitHub

A PowerShell Hashing Script

A bug in PowerShell 7.4.0 with the 'Group-Object' cmdlet will throw and error with filenames that contain curly brackets '{' or '}'. This has been fixed with latest ...
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 ...