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Microsoft Weekly: Gaming turmoil, big OneDrive update and new Windows 11 builds

Catch up with this week's Microsoft Weekly news recap about a shakeup at the company's gaming division, some changes to the ...

You Can Now Install—and Update—Microsoft Store Apps Using the Command Line

By typing simple, text-based commands into Windows' PowerShell, you can quickly install apps directly from the Microsoft ...

Fake CAPTCHA pages are tricking users into installing malware

The hackers use fake CAPTCHA pages—which are designed to mimic standard security checks—to trick users into installing malicious software (“Stealthy StealC Information Stealer”) via keyboard commands.

powershell attack

A fake CAPTCHA scam is tricking Windows users into running PowerShell commands that install StealC malware and steal passwords, crypto wallets, and more.

Rufus developers have been blocked from downloading Windows ISOs, and believe there to be 'active intentional involvement from Microsoft'

Insider builds of Windows 11 are unaffected by the issue; if you're not part of the Windows Insider preview program, you ...

Fake CAPTCHA Scam Tricks Windows Users Into Installing Malware

A fake CAPTCHA scam is tricking Windows users into running PowerShell commands that install StealC malware and steal passwords, crypto wallets, and more.

De-Enshittify an Existing Install of Windows 11 ⭐

If you want to de-enshittify Windows 11 but find starting over from scratch to be daunting, then this is for you.

New ClickFix attack abuses nslookup to retrieve PowerShell payload via DNS

Threat actors are now abusing DNS queries as part of ClickFix social engineering attacks to deliver malware, making this the first known use of DNS as a channel in these campaigns.

De-Enshittify Windows 11: Start Fresh with a New Install of Windows 11 ⭐

This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

Windows’ original Secure Boot certificates expire in June—here’s what you need to do

Secure Boot has relied on the same security certificates to verify bootloaders since 2011, during the development cycle for Windows 8. But those original certificates are set to expire in June and ...