Don't miss out on our latest stories. Add PCMag as a preferred source on Google. A new attack is mimicking a Windows update to try and trick users into executing malicious commands, likely to install ...

Microsoft has confirmed that its new Windows update is causing the blue screen of death for users attempting to install the software. The company issued a warning Friday, saying that its Windows ...

Full-screen fake Windows Update or captcha tricks users into pasting and running attacker commands. Malware is steganographically stored in PNG pixels; a .NET Stego Loader extracts, decrypts, and runs ...

Windows 11 users need to double-check if they've recently installed a troublesome Microsoft update that is causing laptops and apps to crash. PC owners are being warned about the KB5013943 security ...

An attack that uses a fake Windows update screen to trick victims installing malware is upping its game by incorporating porn. The attack, which we wrote about earlier this month, appears on malicious ...

The fake update screen then encourages the user to press the Windows button together with the R key—a little-known function to open the run dialog box, a way to launch programs on a Windows PC. All ...