When you right-click a file in Windows 11 or launch a traditional desktop application, you are interacting with code that predates the commercial internet. The Win32 API, introduced all the way back ...

Windows app development shifted from a single stable model to multiple frameworks. When WhatsApp made the universally hated decision to switch its native Windows app to a web wrapper, most of the ...

In recent years, EDR killers have become one of the most commonly seen tools in modern ransomware intrusions: an attacker acquires high privileges, deploys such a tool to disrupt protection, and only ...

FlowProxy is a system-level proxy client for Windows that gives you full control over which traffic goes through a proxy and which connects directly. Think of it as a simple, open-source alternative ...

ESET researchers have identified new MuddyWater activity primarily targeting organizations in Israel, with one confirmed target in Egypt. MuddyWater, also referred to as Mango Sandstorm or TA450, is ...

I'd like to thank my coauthors, Victor Vrabie, Adrian Schipor, and Martin Zugec, for their invaluable contributions to this research. TL;DR A Chinese APT group compromised a Philippine military ...

Microsoft lead software engineer Beth Pan has stated that WinUI, the modern user interface framework for Windows, will be made "truly open source," though no date is yet set because of deep ...

My first encounter with C++ was way back in the 1990s, when it was one of the Real Programming Languages™ that I sometimes heard about as I was still splashing about in the kiddie pool with Visual ...

There is a variety of GUI frameworks for .NET: Microsoft itself offers several alternatives and the agony of choice is now greater than ever, as three external providers are also involved in the ...

The domain and IP addresses involved do not appear in any previously documented incidents, and the malware does not share any code similarities with previously known malicious software. Since this ...