Abstract: The DotNetToJScript (DTJS) project, released in 2017, established an impressive technique for reflectively loading .NET shellcode using Windows scripting languages like JScript and VBScript.

In context: Windows has included a proprietary JavaScript engine since the release of Internet Explorer 3.0 nearly 30 years ago. Technically, JScript is Microsoft's own dialect of the ...

A new FileFix attack allows executing malicious scripts while bypassing the Mark of the Web (MoTW) protection in Windows by exploiting how browsers handle saved HTML webpages. The technique, was ...

.NET Aspire is a cloud-native application stack designed to simplify the development of distributed systems in .NET. Introduced at Microsoft's 2024 Build developer conference, it provides a set of ...

The .NET framework allows cross-platform development on Windows and Mac, and Microsoft released version 8 for both in November. Here's what that means to developers. In the late 1990s, Microsoft began ...

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In announcing .NET 8 today, Microsoft emphasized the cloud, performance, full-stack Blazor, AI and .NET MAUI as major highlights of the latest edition of the company's free, cross-platform, open ...

If you see 100% or high CPU, GPU or Disk usage by the .NET Runtime Optimization Service (mscorsvw.exe) on your Windows 11/10 PC, then this guide will help you fix the problem. Why is .NET Runtime ...

.NET 6 will now include Hot Reload across multiple platforms .NET 6 will now include Hot Reload across multiple platforms is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things ...

Microsoft risks burning all of its good open source work Microsoft risks burning all of its good open source work is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, ...