PC World

New ransomware abuses Windows PowerShell, Word document macros

A new ransomware program written in Windows PowerShell is being used in attacks against enterprises, including health care organizations, researchers warn. PowerShell is a task automation and ...
MCPmag

PowerShell Trend Reporting, Part 3: Excel and Word Reports

So far in this series, we have looked at querying systems using WMI to pull the drive space and then spent some time looking at sending that data to a SQL server database where it can be saved for ...
Computing

The return of the Microsoft Word macro virus with malicious documents that execute PowerShell scripts

Threat researchers at Palo Alto Networks have warned of a malware campaign that uses malicious Microsoft Word macros to execute PowerShell scripts in an attack that they have dubbed "PowerSniff". The ...
Graham Cluley

Beware PowerSniff! Malware uses Word macros and PowerShell scripts

An ongoing spam campaign is serving up malicious macro documents that execute PowerShell scripts and inject malware directly into memory of the victim’s computer. Josh Grunzweig and Brandon Levene, ...
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Microsoft is finally shutting down PowerShell 2.0

PowerShell 2.0 gets pulled from the latest Windows 11 Insider build Versions 5.1 and 7.x are the best replacements No word on removal from Windows Server Microsoft has confirmed PowerShell 2.0 is ...
CSOonline

Rising ClickFix malware distribution trick puts PowerShell IT policies on notice

IT teams should revisit PowerShell restrictions as an increasingly used click-and-fix technique has users self-serving fake system issues by invoking malicious PowerShell scripts themselves, reducing ...
CIO

New ransomware abuses Windows PowerShell, Word document macros

A new ransomware program written in Windows PowerShell is being used in attacks against enterprises, including health care organizations, researchers warn. PowerShell is a task automation and ...