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 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 ...

A new FileFix attack allows executing malicious scripts while bypassing the Mark of the Web (MoTW) protection in Windows by exploiting how browsers handle saved HTML webpages. The technique, was ...

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Ever since someone figured out that fiddling bits results in source code, developers have sought one codebase for all types of apps on all platforms, with Microsoft's latest attempt to further that ...

The .NET framework allows cross-platform development on Windows and Mac, and Microsoft released version 8 for both in November. Here's what that means to developers. In the late 1990s, Microsoft began ...

When launching an installed app, we face an error – To run this application, you must install .NET Core – which stops us from launching that particular app. The ...

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Microsoft has updated the security baseline for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise (formerly Office 365 Professional Plus) to include protection from JScript code execution attacks and unsigned macros.