Cybercriminals have found a new way to sneak malware past email security tools, and this time they are hiding behind a name that most systems trust without question. A recent malspam campaign has been ...

A sophisticated malspam campaign discovered by the Hunterss exploits Google’s DoubleClick ad-tracking infrastructure to bypass email security gateways before deploying a multi-stage. According to ...

China-aligned hackers have weaponized a JScript-based command-and-control (C&C) framework called PeckBirdy since 2023. This tool abuses living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins) like MSHTA and WScript to ...

Abstract: The DotNetToJScript (DTJS) project, released in 2017, established an impressive technique for reflectively loading .NET shellcode using Windows scripting languages like JScript and VBScript.

In recent months, security teams have observed the emergence of a sophisticated malware loader, dubbed CountLoader, which leverages weaponized PDF files to deliver ransomware payloads. First detected ...

In a nutshell, JScript.NET is "JScript evolved to be able to use .NET features." Compared to JScript, the following points have evolved. Types have been introduced. However, you can still write code ...

Microsoft has announced that it is moving away from Jscript in Windows 11 24H2 to make scripting more secure, and boost Windows 11 security overall. The change sees the company enabling JScript9Legacy ...

In context: Windows has included a proprietary JavaScript engine since the release of Internet Explorer 3.0 nearly 30 years ago. Technically, JScript is Microsoft's own dialect of the ...

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