Among the various security features that Microsoft improved with Windows 11 21H2, one of them was Virtualization-based Security (VBS), also called Core Isolation. As the name suggests, VBS is meant to ...

Almost everyone in the tech community familiar with Microsoft's upcoming Windows 11 OS knows that it has some stringent system requirements for security reasons and ...

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 ...

Virtualization-based Security, as the name suggests, is a security system that uses the Windows hypervisor (Hyper-V) to virtualize sensitive portions of the Windows operating system against exploits ...

SHADOW#REACTOR is a malware campaign using VBS, PowerShell, and MSBuild to stealthily deploy Remcos RAT with persistent ...

In a nutshell: VBScript is an active scripting language that's been part of Windows history since Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack, and Windows CE. Now, after 25 years on the market, the ...

Microsoft announced this week that it's deprecating the timeworn VBScript — bad news for cybercriminals, for whom it's a favorite tool. In future releases of Windows, VBScript will be available only ...

The big picture: The Windows ecosystem has offered an unparalleled level of backward compatibility for decades. However, Microsoft is now working to remove as many legacy technologies as possible in ...