Network 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 ...
Bleeping Computer

New Microsoft Office zero-day used in attacks to execute PowerShell

Security researchers have discovered a new Microsoft Office zero-day vulnerability that is being used in attacks to execute malicious PowerShell commands via Microsoft Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) simply by ...
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 ...
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 ...