Hackers of all sorts are getting an early Christmas present this year in the form of a resurrected PowerShell Empire post-exploitation framework all wrapped up in Python 3. Released in 2015 ...

which is typically run automatically by package managers such as pip to help install Python projects. Figure 4 shows a PowerShell script that downloads and executes the next stage. Figure 4.

Microsoft recently announced that they are adding a feature to Excel that will allow Python code to be embedded ... Excel document that launches a PowerShell script at the click of a button ...

These additional extensions includes files used by Java, PowerShell, Python, and various vulnerabilities ... in order to protect them from malicious scripts and executables.