Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lars Daniel covers digital evidence and forensics in life and law. Recent reports have uncovered a series of malicious extensions ...
While the Windows maker did not attribute the activity to a specific threat actor, the use of VS Code tasks and Vercel ...
Attackers are running paid Facebook ads that look like official Microsoft promotions, then directing users to near-perfect clones of the Windows 11 download page. Click Download Now and instead of a ...
High-severity flaw fixed in Windows 11 Notepad ...
Microsoft patches CVE-2026-20841, a high-severity Windows Notepad flaw that could allow code execution via malicious Markdown ...
Malicious Visual Studio Code extensions were discovered on the VSCode marketplace that download heavily obfuscated PowerShell payloads to target developers and cryptocurrency projects in supply chain ...
An unknown threat actor is deploying a large-scale, sophisticated cryptojacking campaign through a series of malicious extensions in Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s lightweight source-code editor, ...
A security researcher has discovered a FileFix attack chain that allows a threat actor to execute malicious scripts while bypassing the Mark of the Web (MoTW) protection in Windows. ClickFix is a ...