A legacy Windows scripting utility tied to Internet Explorer is still being used in modern malware campaigns, researchers say ...

Attackers are increasingly abusing Microsoft’s legacy MSHTA utility to silently deliver malware, stealers, and persistent ...

Microsoft has officially deprecated VBScript and will remove it from future versions of Windows, which is why this project exists (see Why VBScript? section). The project's executable (vbs-revive.exe) ...

This is the collection of the Javascript / JScript extensions and standalone scripts. It consists of the original scripts by myself and other authors with proper credits. Years ago I invented a simple ...

Malicious scripts are an important computer infection threat vector. Our analysis reveals that the two most prevalent types of malicious scripts include JavaScript and VBScript. The percentage of ...

WTF?! It's an email scam as old as the Nigerian prince asking for money: someone claiming they hacked your webcam and have recorded you in an act of self-pleasure. Unless you pay up, the video will be ...

If you are setting up a new PC with Windows 11 version 24H2 (2024 Update) or later, developers may not find the VBScript installed after installation, as Microsoft does not install it by default now.

Threat actors have used generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to write malicious code in the wild to spread an open source remote access Trojan (RAT). It's one of the first observed examples of ...

In an email campaign targeting French users, researchers discovered malicious code believed to have been created with the help of generative artificial intelligence services to deliver the AsyncRAT ...

Microsoft is deprecating VBScript in favor of "more advanced" alternatives like JavaScript and PowerShell. The company today (May 30) detailed how the phase-out will occur in three stages, the final ...