Microsoft observed ClickFix attacks using browser cache smuggling to execute cached VBScript and launch a credential-targeting malware chain.

Microsoft has published a new blog post outlining in detail how organisations and companies can detect and remove VBScript. The feature may be disabled early. Microsoft, from time to time, kills off ...

A ClickFix campaign has been observed hiding a VBScript payload in the browser cache, disguised as an image, so the script was already on the device when the victim was tricked into running a command ...

Microsoft is moving ahead with its plan to eradicate VBScript from the web. On August 13, 2019, in the next Patch Tuesday update, the company will disable the technology by default on Internet ...

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Microsoft is planning to phase out VBScript in future Windows releases after 30 years of use, making it an on-demand feature until it is removed. VBScript (also known as Visual Basic Script or ...

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Microsoft has quietly announced plans to deprecate VBScript in "future releases of Windows". The company has not been more specific about the timeline than this, but there are some details about the ...

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 ...

Today, Microsoft announced that beginning with the August 13 cumulative updates, VBScript will be disabled by default in Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Back in 2017, ...

VBScript, or Visual Basic Scripting, is a scripting language developed by Microsoft to help developers write scripts that interact with its products. VBScript is mainly used with Internet Explorer.

You cannot protect your business's VBScript code perfectly, but you can encode it to prevent the average person from understanding it. VBScript is an older scripting language, but if your business ...