Figure 1: PowerShell doesn't like apostrophes in strings. Admittedly, PowerShell's seeming inability to handle apostrophes might not initially seem like a big deal.

I'm trying to pull SIDs and usernames from the registry on a windows box for use later in a script, so I wrote a bit of powershell to pull those out, trim off the crap and feed them into an array.

PowerShell has evaluated the subexpression within the text string. One thing that I want to be sure to point out before I move on is that the dollar sign is only half of what's needed for a ...

Strings are a very common thing to see and use in PowerShell. Parameters may take strings and a lot of times the objects that are outputted by various commands have strings as their properties. In ...

A cybersecurity researcher has developed FileFix, a variant of the ClickFix social engineering attack that tricks users into ...

FFmpeg was designed as a cross-platform solution for video and audio recording, conversion, and streaming using simple static command lines. Using variables and 'for loops' in a command string ...

The Emotet botnet is now using Windows shortcut files (.LNK) containing PowerShell commands to infect victims computers, moving away from Microsoft Office macros that are now disabled by default.

On April 9, a user on the r/antivirus subreddit shared how they were tricked into executing an obfuscated PowerShell script from a Google Drive document. Upon investigation, G Data CyberDefense ...

Right-click PowerShell > New > String Value. Name it as ExecutionPolicy. Double-click on it to set the Value data as mentioned below. If you want to learn more, keep reading.