SmartScreen is designed to automatically block suspicious files, but it often flags genuine downloads as malicious. Here's how you can disable Windows Defender SmartScreen on Windows 11 to download ...

If you use a Windows computer, it's time to update it yet again — before hackers get to you with the latest Windows malware threat. Phemedrone is an open-source malware that targets web browsers and ...

Microsoft has patched today a Windows Defender SmartScreen zero-day exploited in the wild by a financially motivated threat group to deploy the DarkMe remote access trojan (RAT). The hacking group ...

A Microsoft Defender SmartScreen vulnerability patched in November has found fresh active exploitation in a Phemedrone information-stealing malware campaign, according to cybersecurity research and ...

An actively exploited security bypass vulnerability in Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is being exploited in a new stealer campaign to download malicious executables on the victim’s system. Tracked as ...

Although Microsoft Defender SmartScreen scans downloads by default from all trusted sources in the Edge browser, you can disable it if you want, using the Registry Editor and the Local Group Policy ...

Microsoft offered more details this week about its enhanced phishing protection technology that kicked off with the newly released Windows 11 version 22H2. So far, it's looking like the useful ...

Microsoft has announced the release of new improvements to its Microsoft Edge browser in the form of enhanced web protection. Helping keep users of the Windows browser safe from “web threats of the ...