Microsoft: Critical Windows Admin Center Flaw Allows Privilege Escalation

A high-severity Windows Admin Center vulnerability (CVE-2026-26119) could allow privilege escalation in enterprise ...

Here is how Microsoft is improving PowerShell and Windows OpenSSH in 2026Here is how Microsoft is improving PowerShell and Windows OpenSSH in 2026Here is how Microsoft is ...

Microsoft is gearing up for big PowerShell and Windows OpenSSH changes in 2026, but security will come before flashy new features.
CSO Online

SSHStalker botnet brute-forces its way onto 7,000 Linux machines

A newly discovered botnet is compromising poorly-protected Linux servers by brute-forcing weak SSH password login ...

New Linux botnet SSHStalker uses old-school IRC for C2 comms

A newly documented Linux botnet named SSHStalker is using the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) communication protocol for command-and-control (C2) operations.
GitHub

Windows OpenSSH Server Startup

This repository provides a PowerShell script to validate and start the Windows OpenSSH Server service. It checks common failure points (installation, service configuration, host keys, firewall, port ...
GitHub

Windows Fail2Ban: SSH Brute-Force protection

Just like the original Fail2Ban, this configurable and easy to use solution works by scanning logs, in this case the Windows event log from the Win32-OpenSSH service and bans IPs with too many failed ...