Microsoft’s aging “mshta.exe” utility, a leftover component from Internet Explorer, is still being actively abused in modern malware campaigns years after the browser itself was retired. According to ...

Bitdefender security researchers have discovered that attackers continue to exploit Microsoft HTML Application Host (MSHTA), a legacy utility available by default on Windows systems that can execute ...

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) ...

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.

Microsoft Defender Experts observed a campaign beginning in late February 2026 that uses WhatsApp messages to deliver malicious Visual Basic Script (VBS) files. Once executed, these scripts initiate a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...