Ransomware threat actors tracked as Velvet Tempest are using the ClickFix technique and legitimate Windows utilities to deploy the DonutLoader malware and the CastleRAT backdoor.

COBOL is in the headlines again, and this time it is because of artificial intelligence (AI) – sparking conversations with tools emerging that claim t.

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An Anthropic researcher's efforts to get its newly released Opus 4.6 model to build a C compiler left him "excited," "concerned," and "uneasy." It also left many observers on GitHub skeptical, to say ...

FOSDEM 2026 The creators of security software have encountered an unlikely foe in their attempts to protect us: modern compilers. Today's compilers boil down code into its most efficient form, but in ...

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A new ClickFix social engineering campaign is targeting the hospitality sector in Europe, using fake Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) screens to trick users into manually compiling and executing ...

The native just-in-time compiler in Python 3.15 can speed up code by as much as 20% or more, although it’s still experimental. JITing, or “just-in-time” compilation, can make relatively slow ...

SppExtComObj.exe is a legitimate part of Windows responsible for managing software activation, but it can sometimes cause errors. In this post, we are going to discuss this process and the errors ...

PS2EXE installs through the PowerShell Gallery, so you can set it up quickly. Open Windows Terminal or PowerShell as administrator. Run the module installation command: Install-Module -Name PS2EXE ...